A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.