#Colour

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“I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well”

 

~ Gordon Parks
(1912-2006)

 

 

“My clothes are too chic for most women. If they want to wear them all right, but they’ve got to live up to them”

 

~ James Galanos
(1924-2016)

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"Florida’s unique blend of natural beauty and artificial spectacle makes it endlessly photographable. Its landscapes are visually striking, with dramatic skies, lush vegetation and an ever-changing coastline. At the same time, there is this human layer — urban sprawl, tourism culture and environmental tension. The juxtaposition of the pristine and the constructed and the tension between preservation and overdevelopment create a rich visual narrative."

 

~ Anastasia Samoylova

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"What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling."

 

~ Steve McCurry

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"My working method consists of two parts. The first is collecting, a fully intuitively process, in which the emotional experience is key and technique is of minor or very little importance. When photographing, for example, I don’t pay that many attention to sharpness. However, in the second stage, after the material has been collected, I’ll put all the dedication into the work, the editing, the printing. This process can take a long time, just like aging wine. It is impossible to predict what will come out, but I treat this second part with the most care and attention. Knowing, that the real beauty lies in the imperfection, the little mistakes, edges or elements that you didn't foresee."

 

~ Paul Cupido

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"Photography is so connected to time, its our currency"

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“The cliché is true: you must navigate through darkness to reach the lighter parts. The darker parts serve as the humus ground to nurture the light.”

~ Paul Cupido 

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“While human life is fleeting, our individual lives are a rich tapestry of experience an memories”

 

~ Paul Cupido

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"Key Largo, is one of the earliest images in the project. At that time, I was still photographing speculatively, without any preconceived agenda. Having moved to Miami earlier that year, it all seemed wild and exotic. The first hurricane warnings appeared in the summer. On a weekend getaway to the Keys, I took this photograph of my son climbing on a branch over the ocean. I think of this image as an allegory, both idyllic and uncertain about the future of our children in this changing climate. It appears that solving the crisis will fall largely on them."

 

~ Anastasia Samoylova

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“When I’m not making work, I’m spending my time reading. I’m reading and thinking about how to present something in a different way visually or through words”

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“A good photograph becomes something more than just a good photograph. It has meaning and value that extends beyond the medium itself. Something spiritual that reveals something about life”

 

~ William Klein
(1928-2022)

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“Our way of life is strongly dependent on the cycle and rhythm of the seasons, the movement of the tides and the phases of the moon”

 

~ Paul Cupido

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“Nature doesn’t wait for anyone”

~ Cig Harvey

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"I believe that childhood can contain certain numinous moments, something that can give a sort of almost cosmic inspiration. I experienced this with the sea close to our family home, which has an enormous tidal effect, with the water ebbing and flowing twice a day. At low tide, you can walk out across the mudflats and witness a myriad of life, including multitudes of birds. Then at high tide, that same area is completely submerged by two meters of water. During our long childhood summers, we would lose all sense of time, sometimes spending so long at the shore that the sea had time to rise, fall, and rise again. At night, the lighthouse would flash through my childhood bedroom window every four seconds, and my grandparents used to tell me it was watching over us. These experiences meant that from a very young age, I was acutely aware of the perpetual rhythms of the island, like the cosmic phenomenon of the moon controlling the tides, the passing of the seasons. That enduring sense of rhythm has certainly influenced my work as an artist."

 

~ Paul Cupido

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"For me color is not the most important part of the picture. For me it is the story. It’s the emotional content in the picture"

 

~ Steve McCurry

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“I believe that the greatest creativity stems from the childlike nature that one has retained”

 

~ Sarah Moon

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“When I take pictures, I let reality decide what to do. I only take one when I’m deeply moved by what I see”

 

~ Louis Stettner (1922-2016)

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“It is a scientistic fact that color affects the body"

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“I do not use the word “genius” lightly but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing”

 

~ Mick Rock

 

“As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself”

 

~ David Bowie

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"They were getting ready for their annual Village Fete and the lady was calling a friend to get the recipe for some tarts to bake. Her little girl had been in a phone box and found out that if you pressed Button B then sometimes money came out (Do you remember the old UK phone boxes?). The Mother therefore told the child that she had to face outwards and keep her hands off the buttons. I heard this story more than 50 years later when I showed the pictures in Pembridge Village Hall and I met the former child. This picture was on the cover of the Sunday Times issue”

 

~ John Bulmer

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“I was driving around Yorkshire and stopped by the bridge. I pretended to be photographing the buildings and switched at the last minute to catch the girls. I met one of the ladies in the picture fifty years later when the BBC did a little film about an exhibition I had in Wakefield. She rang The BBC and said “I’m the girl in the picture”. We were both invited to the studio to meet on air”

 

~ John Bulmer

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"The photograph came off as planned. What had seemed to some as too dangerous or difficult to accomplish, became my fantasy fulfilled, and my most memorable self–assigned photograph."

~ Ormond Gigli
(1925 - 2019)

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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

 

~ Helen Keller

"What I can’t believe is how much I love photography even after all these years, it’s still brand new to me even though, you know, I started working the dark room at thirteen, it’s been my only job, whether I was teaching it or making it."

 

~ Cig Harvey

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“I see that I could stop touring at anytime, but then I don’t feel like it right now. I’ve got no retirement plans”

 

~ Bob Dylan

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“If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.”

 

~ Steve McCurry

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How to Force Blossoms

1. Acknowledge out loud your desperation for spring.

2. Find branches with plenty of buds on them.

3. Cut the stems at an angle.

4. Arrange in warm water.

5. Change the water daily.

6. Place in indirect sunlight all over the house.

7. Wait.

Warning — Forcing forsythia may cause a temporary aversion to violet, its opposite on the color spectrum.

~Cig Harvey