Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
Allan SekulaThe photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
Allan SekulaThe only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
Allan Sekula