5 Quotes by Gilles Peress

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.

I am bad at memory – this is why I shoot pictures.

We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.