Fay Godwin Quotes

• I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

  Fay Godwin

  Imagination, Photograph

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• Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Book, Cameras

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• You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

  Fay Godwin

  Years, Half, Hours

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• The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Views, Photograph

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• I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the location as possible. You can’t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. And in fact I don’t believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That’s why I love it so much.

  Fay Godwin

  Believe, Character, Simple

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• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  Fay Godwin

  Black And White, Landscape, Mediums

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• I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

  Fay Godwin

  Land, Walking, Bits

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• I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

  Fay Godwin

  Cameras, Walks, Walkers

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• I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

  Fay Godwin

  Reading, Portraits, World

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• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  Fay Godwin

  Responsibility, Aggravation, Greed

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• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Technique, Photographer

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• I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  Fay Godwin

  Country, Avid, Trying

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• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  Fay Godwin

  Book, Inspire, Magazines

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• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  Fay Godwin

  People, Faithful, Trying

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• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  Fay Godwin

  Mind, Gathering, Process

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• I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

  Fay Godwin

  Years, Digital, Possibility

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• But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Country, Avid

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• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  Fay Godwin

  Mother, Photography, Children

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