The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.
Philip Jones Griffiths[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.
Philip Jones GriffithsThe first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.
Philip Jones GriffithsWhat we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.
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