What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.
Josef KoudelkaI don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.
Josef KoudelkaI 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.
Josef KoudelkaSometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.
Josef KoudelkaFor me what photographers say about their photos doesnโt 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.
Josef Koudelka