Alfred Eisenstaedt
” If a man looked this way, and I asked him to look the other way, that’s not a lie. I only wanted to show the best side.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Tame Iti
Tame Iti, Tuhoe activist.
Angkor Wat
Dawn at Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
Kendo
Kendo fighter.
Kent Reno
“When you begin viewing the world through a camera lens, your senses sharpen as your mind and eyes are forced to focus on people and things never before noticed or thought about. I discovered that even if I didn’t always take a picture, the simple act of carrying a camera and searching for something to photograph greatly sharpened my powers of observation and allowed me to experience much more of life.”
Kent Reno.
Robert Frank
“Photography must contain one thing: the humanity of the moment.”
Robert Frank.
Carl Mydans
“There’s a thrill to see the picture form in front of you and to catch it. The world is in motion, and the photographer has to find some way to stop that motion for an instant. Sometimes it’s not easy, but there’s nothing that I have ever done that is more fun”.
Carl Mydans.
Warriors
Waka crew’s arriving at Waitangi, part of my life project on Maori.
Musquito
If you think you are to small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in your tent.
Arther Tress
“Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly towards me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.
Through my camera I try to clarify and edit the unnumbered flow of moments that constantly parades and invades my senses. My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for self preservation from disorder.
The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organisation. I need it to survive”
Arther Tress.
Relax
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect, but as photographers we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Maori
Proof sheet from my life project on Maori.
Dorothea Lange
“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion. The subject must be somthing you truly love of truly hate”
Dorothea Lange.
Mother and son.
My wife and son, Fiordland.
The S#!t I Shoot 