... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.
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 GriffithsEven if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If that's all your doing, it still a very very worth while profession to be involved in.
Philip Jones GriffithsLet's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.
Philip Jones Griffiths