“For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many times - for the boring pictures - people have to say so many things about them to show you there is something to them when many times there is nothing.” PeopleLooksEnoughShowsImportancePhotographerBoring Author:Josef Koudelka
“I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.” LooksPhotographyIntellectualPhotographerPhilosopher Author:Josef Koudelka
“I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.” IfsYearsLooksHas BeensDifferentCountryThreeSeeingInfluenceMonthsHeroPhotographyYears AgoBlindThree MonthsIf I Stay Author:Josef Koudelka
“When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it.” IfsThinkingBelieveLooksMomentsGuyAsksI BelieveResultsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographContactPrintThis Guy Author:Josef Koudelka
“I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.” PeopleLooksStoriesPhotographyPhotographerCaption Author:Josef Koudelka
“I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.” WantLooksViewsPhotographyPhotographer Author:Josef Koudelka
