Fay Godwin Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.”

“The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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