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Quote by Peter Turnley

“Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.”

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Peter Turnley

Peter Turnley is a renowned photographer known for his outstanding contributions to the field of news photography. Born on June 22, 1955, he has won numerous international photography awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, since the 1980s. Turnley is recognized for his profound portrayal of conflict and human emotion, with his photographs exhibited globally and featured in major media outlets. more

“We hear a lot about the notion of objectivity, and I'm not sure I know what that is. I know what fairness is. I know what honesty is. And I know what the heart and emotions are. I think those are the things I particularly want to embrace. I would not want anyone to take away my right and my ability to communicate my feelings about the things that I see.”

Thinking Knows Want Heart Feelings Ability Emotion Honesty Embrace Notion Communicate Not Sure Fairness Objectivity Ability To Communicate

Author:Peter Turnley

“I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.”

Men Country Eye Running Young Blood Photography News Mass Lows Murder Clubs Guts Totems Country Clubs

Author:Burk Uzzle

“You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.”

Ifs Made Said Form Hair Perfection Significant Noise Substance Judged Fleeting Breadth Merging

Author:Burk Uzzle

“After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.”