photographers

"Photography is isolating, so I tend to try and find bodies of work that are actually an extension of how I'm living, so whether it's walking on the beach or in the ocean or swimming — it's a way of exploring what that means to me and why I'm attracted to it,"

"She had spent her life living under the Taliban; she knew what that meant for Afghan women, and she understood that she could tell their stories in photographs."

"She had developed the films under moonlight and ensured that each picture was good before leaving that location."

"As humans, I think we like to wait and wonder. Digital photography can't satisfy that need for me."

"Most of us disregard the natural world. We're a very self-important part of something much bigger."

"Women were banned from continuing their education during Taliban rule. But some, like Farzana, found ways to keep studying. She would carry books under her burqa and attended what she calls an "underground school" with about 300 other students in a residential area of Kabul."

"Shoghi Effendi liked her photographic work, and included the photographs she had taken of monument gardens on Mount Carmel and others in the Baháʼí yearbook."

""celebration of the two-dimensional with [a] strong use of frontal lighting. The image is perceived as an arrangement of shapes: a hat may be chosen for its geometrical line, the body framed for effect and the who image subtly etched with shadow"."

"I fall in love with the little birds, but they're transient, there are always new ones coming along."

"In Syria, the war that I witnessed was different: It was one fought among civilians, among neighbors."

"She was so strongly influenced by the teachings of this faith that she became a Baháʼí in 1922. She was the first woman who converted to this faith in Australia."

"Wherever I go I get interested in native plants and animals"

"Etherton describes her as prolific and professional. "Show her something once, and she'll be able to do it better than you can""

"Her portrait work was featured in leading magazines and newspapers of the period such as The Home Magazine, The Australian Women's Weekly, and The Sun."

"Day by day, as I started learning about photography, I fell more in love with it. There was a huge need for women photographers in Afghanistan."

"I try to show the bigger image, not just show we have problems," she says. "And we do have a lot of problems, but I do want to show normal daily life."

"Her work usually covers "conflict, humanitarian issues, and stories about women and politics" and is largely based in countries suffering from internal conflict – social, economic, or humanitarian."

""How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan". NPR.org. Retrieved 12 April 2025."

"I'm hoping people get the sense of awe that I have when I'm in the water. I hope they feel transformed, and inspired to love the ocean,"

"Throughout my career, the water has featured as a muse and illustrates the different connections I have with the ocean and how it may have mirrored my own psychology at a particular time,"

"Many Afghan photographers are not well-connected," she explains. "We hope it will create a better connection and show Afghanistan by Afghan photographers."

"have covered so many wars in so many countries. In Iraq, you could always have got unlucky and caught up in a suicide bombing. In Lebanon, there had been safe areas and risky ones. In Libya, for the most part, it was clearer who was fighting and who was a non-combatant."

"I love that moment of immersion where someone jumps in and they bring that air into the water. It's a really visceral feeling of immersion; going into another place and another world,"

"My aim is to excel at whatever I do."

"Baby Blues was that project I went into and it felt like I wasn’t prepared for the depth of its discovery.There was always something to learn."

"I’ll be the first director on this stage who will say, ‘I wish I never made this film’. I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities. I wish to give it all the recognition to Russia not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I wish for them to release all the hostages, all the soldiers who are protecting their lands, all the civilians who are now in their jails. We can make sure that the history record is set straight and that the truth will prevail and that the people of Mariupol and those who have given their lives will never be forgotten."

"You need reality for the illusion to work. And you need the illusion to understand reality. But what do you need to create and understand a book? Where is a boundary between writer, reader, and charachter? How to know who is who?"

"Your reputation will always precede you; integrity is key. Pray."

"Life is tough, but always remember you’re tougher. There are no failures only lessons."

"Never let anyone who doesn’t have the power to tell you ‘Yes’ tell you ‘No’. Be kind. Believe in yourself, you can achieve anything you put your mind to. There are no failures, only lessons."

"Be fearless. Never stop learning, you can ALWAYS be better. When it comes to the pursuit of your happiness and achieving your dreams, make it a no retreat no surrender situation."

"I have learnt that persistence and consistency are key in everything you do. If you keep at your purpose diligently; whether or not it seems to be going well or not, with time, the universe will align in your favour."

"On your journey called life, you will encounter setbacks; this is inevitable but DON’T ever give up. Your breakthrough is just around the corner."

"Be strong when you fall because you are left with no other option."

"She needed balance. Her own moon that would rise and fall with her, keeping her equilibrium, loving her unconditionally."

"Being different doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you or that you aren’t perfect as you are. It simply means getting special support so you can live your best life."

"We are in fact all perfectly different, and what makes us different needs to be fully celebrated within society."

"A lot of the feelings of isolation, lack of belonging, and exclusion Muna feels are real and raw for me."

"Many personal experiences were sprinkled throughout the book."

"Brittany was the most challenging character for me because, as the author, we don’t share the same values, but she is completely valid."

"The trauma she had endured often manifested itself as quiet tears once she was locked in her room, staring at her graveyard of photos."

"I often say there is a huge difference between loving a Black woman versus taking directions from her as your boss or CEO."

"In my travels, from land to land, I never encountered the paradise I had hoped for. But sometimes, at least, I captured a few glimpses of earthly happiness from afar, and now this has a greater value for me than any imaginary paradise"

"“Я стала пояснювати йому різниці між нами та руськими, нарисувала мапу України та її сусідніх країн, щоб він краще зрозумів її положення, врешті, сказала я, що нас є біля сорока мільйонів та що Україна у півтора раза більша за Францію. Ці всі пояснення я знаю краще за молитву, бо частенько трапляється мені повторювати їх французам та іншим чужинцям, що нічого не знають про наше існування.“"

"...shading is of great importance, and good shadows can best be secured when the sun is low, and when one side of all objects is more strongly lighted than the other."

"A photograph can be made with an uncorrected lens, or with no lens at all by making an exposure through a fine needle-hole in a thin metal disc, and the result may be a picture showing the characteristic virtue of photography, the rendering of infinitely delicate gradations of tone. This is where photography stands alone, and this is the distinguishing quality which has given it a place among the fine arts."

"Plates and films possess great latitude, it is true, but too short an exposure always has a tendency to cause a loss of atmosphere."

"Where light falls on an object and is reflected back to the eye, we see a highlight; where it strikes at an angle and is reflected back other than directly to the eye we see halftones; where no direct light falls on the object we have shadows: and these highlights, halftones and shadows are modified by light reflected into them by other objects and by other parts of the same object."

"So photography, having a place among artistic processes, has its own distinguishing quality which cannot be duplicated by any other medium."

"Nature is interesting at all times, but, as a general rule, very harsh and glaring sunlight, when the sun is high in the heavens, should be avoided, because at such times there is an often an utter lack of relief, roundness and modeling in the trees and other objects."