Within the Frame Quotes

“Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely
personal relationship with their gear.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“You are responsible for every element within the frame.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“It’s the difference between your wife’s passport photograph and the portraits you took when you got

engaged. Both may have been created with similar technology, but what stands in that great gulf between them are the passion you have for your wife, the knowledge you have of her personality, and your willingness to use your craft, time, and energy to express that. One says, “She looks like this.” The other says, “This is who she is to me. It’s how I feel about her. See how amazing she is?”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“A photograph can communicate a couple things— and sometimes only one thing—very well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“As long as we’re alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we’ll have something to say.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“الرؤية هي كلّّ شيء، وغاية الرحلة الفوتوغرافية هي اكتشاف رؤيتك، وتمكينها من التطوّر، والتغيّر، والعثور على أسلوب التعبير من خلال الكاميرا والصورة المطبوعة. إنها ليست شيئاً تعثر عليه وتقبله مرة واحدة وبشكل نهائي؛ إنها شيء يتغيّر وينمو معك. إن الأشياء التي تثيرك، والتي تغضبك، والتي تُحركك تعتبر جزءًا من رؤيتك الفريدة. إنها مسألة تتعلّق بما تجده أنت -كشخص فريد من بين بلايين الناس- جميلاً أو قبيحاً، صحيحاً أو خاطئاً، شاذّاً أو منسجماً في هذا العالم. وفي أثناء مواجهتك للحياة، تتغيّر رؤيتك. القصص التي تريد روايتها، الأشياء التي لها وقع وصدى في نفسك؛ كلها تتغيّر وكذلك رؤيتك. إن العثور على رؤيتك والتعبير عنها هما الرحلة، وليس الوجهة.”
― David duChemin, ضمن الإطار: رحلة الرؤية الفوتوغرافية

“For me, photography is the organization of chaos into order through the austere discipline of the frame...”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“That's photography: the discipline of cramming your vision into a frame and making it fit.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“Vision is the beginning and end of photography. It's the thing that moves you to pick up the camera, and it determines what you look at and what you see when you do. It determines how you shoot and why. Without vision, the photographer perishes.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“Professionals are not marked by how much money they make at their craft, but by their dedication to it and the way they recover and learn from the ones that got away.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“Takže vezměte v potaz další fotografickou techniku, o níž se moc nemluví a kterou si nemůžete koupit ve vašem obchodě s fotoaparáty: trpělivost.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“V rozvojovém světě si rodiče děti nehlídají o nic méně, ale jsou obvykle méně paranoidní, což dává fotografovi více prostoru a odpovědnosti.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“The human hunger that is expressed in spiritual practice and ritual is about as primal and as basic as it comes; it is at the core of what it means to be human.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“Passionate stories told passionately: that’s the goal of my image making.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“The perfect moment is one of our treasures, and patience is the best way to find it.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“I am most excited by people, places, and cultures that have not yet been overtaken by the creeping homogeny of the west. I love the color and texture of those places, the vitality of life, and the ritual and symbolism of cultures not yet tyrannized by the need to wear the same jeans and believe the same things.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“Bruce Percy, a brilliant landscape photographer, once said to me, “You can’t polish a turd.” Wise words.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision