John Sexton Photographer “To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.” Photography Film Photographer ♥ 3
John Sexton Photographer “I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.” Trying Photography Yosemite ♥ 3
John Sexton Photographer “When the object that is produced...the photographic image...has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.” Eye Photography Inspire ♥ 3
John Sexton Photographer “The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.” Way Pay Photography ♥ 3
John Sexton Photographer “Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.” Thinking Self Photography ♥ 3
John Sexton Photographer “I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.” Two Unique Photography ♥ 3
John Sexton Photographer “You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.” Trying Needs Photography ♥ 3
John Sexton Photographer “I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.” Love Is Photography Environment ♥ 3
Jonathon Keats Artist, Philosopher “My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.” Believe Book Photography ♥ 3
Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet “I think of myself as being an ethical man, but I don't try to teach ethics. I have no message. I know little about contemporary life. I don't read a newspaper. I dislike politics and politicians. I belong to no party whatever. My private life is a private life. I try to avoid photography and publicity.” Men Party Photography ♥ 3
Julian Lennon Musician, Singer-Songwriter “I have always felt that I have observed life in a different way to others... Music has always been one creative outlet for me, but now I'm happy to add another one too, that being photography” Different Creative Photography ♥ 3
John Sexton Photographer “He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.” Soul Photography Dedicated ♥ 3
