“She smells of the sea. She smells of rockpools when I was a child. She keeps a starfish in there. I crouch down to taste the salt, to run my fingers around the rim. She opens and shuts like a sea anemone. She’s refilled each day with fresh tides of longing.”

Jeanette Winterson, Written on […]

“We’re all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don’t spend any time, or think they don’t, on preparing themselves for the world out there – I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the […]

“Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.”

Dorothea Lange

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”

Arnold Newman

“If a man can possess a woman sexually – really possess – he won’t need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”

Toni Bentley

“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

Edgar Degas

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

Juan Ramon Jimenez

“What do you think, Linda?”

“The erotic instinct is something questionable, and will always be so whatever a future set of laws may have to say on the matter. It belongs, on the one hand, to the original animal nature of man, which will exist as long as man has an animal body. On the other hand, it is connected […]

“I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.”

Bruce Gilden