摄影师

“The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding, but you forget — you are just looking so much.”

“相机让你忘记了你在那里。不是说你在躲藏，而是你忘记了——因为你太专注于观看了。”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“你不是拍一张照片，你是创造它。”

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”

“一张照片是关于秘密的秘密。它告诉你的越多，你知道的越少。”

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

“摄影从时间中取出一个瞬间，通过使生命静止来改变它。”

“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.”

“我看到相机可以成为对抗贫困、对抗种族主义、对抗各种社会不公的武器。在那一刻我知道我必须拥有一台相机。”

“光影是我的画笔，街道是我的画布。”

“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality.”

“拍照就是屏住呼吸，当所有感官汇聚以捕捉转瞬即逝的现实。”

“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

“照片不存在不准确一说。所有照片都是准确的。但没有一张是真相。”

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”

“黑与白是摄影的色彩。对我而言，它们象征着人类永远面对的希望与绝望的两极。”

“The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.”

“真相是最好的照片，最好的宣传。”

“I used to think I couldn't lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.”

“我曾以为只要拍下足够多的照片，就不会失去任何人。事实上，我的照片让我看到我失去了多少。”

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.”

“一张好照片能传达一个事实，触动心灵，让观者在看过之后成为一个不同的人。”

“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”

“照片打开了通往过去的门，但也让人得以窥见未来。”

“I went to photograph the end of the world, and I found it.”

“我去拍摄世界的尽头，而我找到了。”

“I want to take photographs that are like fossils of light and time.”

“我想拍摄如光与时间的化石般的照片。”

“If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.”

“如果你等待，人们会忘记你的相机，灵魂就会浮现出来。”

“I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.”

“我对一样东西只拍一张照片。真的，从不拍第二张。”

“I'm a sort of spy.”

“我算是一个间谍。”

“People out of work are not given to talking about it much; in this respect they are like the dead.”

“失业的人不太愿意谈论这件事；在这一点上，他们像死者一样。”

“I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits.”

“我觉得在我的作品中我是匿名的。当我看那些照片时，我从没有看到自己；它们不是自画像。”

“I don't know how to take photographs. I just know how to see.”

“我不知道怎么拍照。我只知道怎么观看。”