24 Quotes by David Burnett

Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you’re crazy enough it might be for you.

Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don’t forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.

It’s a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don’t give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

War isn’t a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

The loss of letters in today’s world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan’t know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we’ll wish we had those letters never written.

When you’ve lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there’s no point in being nostalgic.