Julio Mitchel finished El Sur without seeing conditions improve. From the 1980s to 2000, he travelled through seven Latin American countries, photographing poverty, inequality, and the abuse of power. Photography Book Spotlight
Catherine DeLattre’s photographs begin with something worth stopping for. Driving through Wayne County, Pennsylvania, she notices isolated houses, trees, and open fields. Photography Book Spotlight
“I have never been interested in photographs based solely on aesthetics, divorced from reality. I also doubt very much whether this is possible.”
“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing ‘Chopsticks’ on a concert grand piano.”
“Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.”
“The artist’s task is to find the right point of view, the right angle, to create something that didn’t exist before.”
“My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation.”
"I'm happiest when I'm away from my studio, away from my house, and out with my camera.”
“Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.”
"The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other."
"We don't take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds."
"The camera is just a tool; the real magic happens when the photographer can find the humanity in their subjects."
"I'm not interested in images that show something. I'm interested in images that feel something."
Lauren Shaw found connections between her body and nature. In March 2020, she brought an extracted tooth home from the dentist, amazed that it had come from her own body. She spent several days photographing it. Photography Book Spotlight