Paul Francis Photographs

A few favourites...

‘Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.’
Alexander Pope

'I have seen these things in a shaft of sunlight.' T.S. Eliot

‘If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.’ Robert Capa


'If you want reality, take the bus.' David LaChapelle


‘Somehow I was using the camera to make connections. I have a tendency to work out of a state of mind.’ Bruce Davidson


'[Photography] is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis.’ Henri Cartier Bresson


‘I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.’
Diane Arbus


‘I photograph because I want to see what something looks like when it’s photographed’ Garry Winogrand


‘Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.’ Henri Cartier-Bresson


'...to know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting' Dorothea Lange or...


' What am I looking for? I can't tell you, I aint found it yet.' Les Paul


' it's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission' Grace Hopper