Fay Godwin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
-- Fay Godwin

#Imagination #Photograph
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
-- Fay Godwin

#Photography #Book #Cameras
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
-- Fay Godwin

#Years #Half #Hours
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
-- Fay Godwin

#Black And White #Landscape #Mediums
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
-- Fay Godwin

#Land #Walking
I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
-- Fay Godwin

#People #Faithful #Trying
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
-- Fay Godwin

#Reading #Portraits #World
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
-- Fay Godwin

#Mind #Gathering #Process
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
-- Fay Godwin

#Years #Digital #Possibility
I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
-- Fay Godwin

#Cameras #Walks #Walkers
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
-- Fay Godwin

#Responsibility #Aggravation #Greed
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
-- Fay Godwin

#Photography #Country #Avid
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
-- Fay Godwin

#Views #Photograph
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
-- Fay Godwin

#Book #Inspire #Magazines
I donâ€™t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the location as possible. You canâ€™t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. And in fact I donâ€™t believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. Thatâ€™s why I love it so much.
-- Fay Godwin

#Believe #Character #Simple
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
-- Fay Godwin

#Country #Avid #Trying
I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
-- Fay Godwin

#Photography #Technique
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
-- Fay Godwin

#Mother #Photography #Children

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