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David

"As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures youâ€™ll ever make are those about you and your life. Â Iâ€™m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Â Donâ€™t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone elseâ€™s."

-- David

#Focus Quotes #Missing Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them,”
“I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.”

Source : "Song: 'Marriage, Movies, Madonna And Mick'". 1985.
“The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was”
“If you do not pay for a service, you are the product they sell. So it ever has been.”
“Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.”
“That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?”
“One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.”

Source : Alice Fulton (1990). “Powers of Congress: Poems”, p.2, Sarabande Books

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