Gentse Koppen

Portrait °5

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.
The portrait is your mirror. It’s you. (August Sander)

The Posing With Camels

It isn’t what a picture is of, it is what it is about. ( John Szarkowski)

Portrait °4

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. (Edward Steichen)

The Standing in Corners

I have a very good memory, but it’s short.
Thank god for photography. (John E. Burkowski)

The Allotment

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand. (Margaret Bourke-White)

The Waiting

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter. (Jean Cocteau)


The Carrying of Art

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. (Robert Frank)

The Frowning

Photography is a means of recording forever the things one sees for a moment. (Aaron Sussman)


The Roping of A Pink Balloon

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. (Emile Zola)

The Importance of Anonimity

There’s only one rule in photography – never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. (Freeman Patterson)


The Company of Friends

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer’s ability
to understand his fellow man. (Edward Weston)


The Letting One’s Feet Dangle

A good photographer must love life more than he does photography. (Joel Strasser)


The Playing of Music

We don’t make a photograph just with a camera, we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read,
the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved.  (Ansel Adams)

The Losing of One’s Head

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
It’s drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff – being sensitive to coincidence.
(Henri Cartier-Bresson)

The Game

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision.
Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye. (Jacques Derrida)


Cowboys & Injuns (The End)

Libin, 2009

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The Wearing of Hats

You look one moment and there’s everything. Next moment it’s gone.
Photography is very philosophical. (Joel Meyerowitz)


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Libin, 2009

The Applause

Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese,
just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one. (
Robert Gillis)

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