7 Quotes by Bruce Gilden

I’m photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It’s my take on the world.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.

I’m known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

I always said it kept me alive – photography – because it did. It was my catharsis.

Everything isn’t black and white, but for me it might as well be.