EMBRACING OUR CONNECTEDNESS
"A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective."
--Irving Penn, Renowned Photographer
"The best portraits are those that capture the essence of who YOU are."
– – Peter Hurley, Headshot Photographer
”My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can be human together.”
– Desmond Tutu. Theologian
"A portrait is not made in the camera, but on either side of it."
– Edward Steichen,Renowned Photographer
"To photograph a person is to borrow their energy, their presence, and their essence."
– Peter Lindbergh, Renowned Photographer
"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
– Robert Frank, Renowned Photographer
"We are all part of the same consciousness looking at itself from different perspectives."
--Adyashanti, American Spiritual Teacher
"Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The art lies in making your subject feel comfortable." –
– Mario Testino, Peruvian Photographer
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
—Annie Liebowitz, Renowned Photographer
"The magic of photography is to capture a portrait that tells a story beyond the face."
– – Rick Langer, Photographer
"The best portraits are those where people don’t look like they are posing, where the photographer has caught them in a natural moment."
--Annie Leibovitz, Renowned Photographer
"We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer,different dances of one dancer, different paintings—but the painter is one."
– Osho, Indian Philosopher and Mystic
"We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically."
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astronomer