My photographs are more questions than answers. I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
Photography and web in pictures & words by Martin Wolf
My photographs are more questions than answers. I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
What’s so striking about black and white photography is how it really helps a sense of reality to come through.
Make a picture that is funny and sad at the same time. A photography that simultaneously evokes pathos, irony and humour.
I believe that the photographer’s job is to cut a frame-sized slice out of the world around him, so faithfully and honestly that if he were to put it back, life and the world would begin to move again without a stumble.
It’s exciting to make something extraordinary out of the banal.
It might all come together for a moment and then just as quickly it is gone.
See the characters but create your own plot.
When you hit that wall of utter frustration while photographing in the street, when you are beyond tired and just want to give up, keep on walking – for another hour, or until the light goes entirely. Often the best photographs come when you least expect them – when you are the most exhausted, and the most emotionally vulnerable.
While walking the street constantly look behind yourself, the light is always different.
Buy a good pair of comfortable shoes, have a camera around your neck at all times, keep your elbows in, be patient, optimistic and don’t forget to smile.