About me: //The work on this page are selections from the collected photography work of Jordan Irwin.To know about me is to believe visually or mentally in my thoughts and expressions through my photos. So along with the photos that are on here, I think this is the most truthful information about me compiled into one section. It's because of this first quote that I feel inclined to share.
//I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark
If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul. ~Author Unknown
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it. ~A. D. Coleman
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~Tony Benn
Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown
Don't look for depth but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth. ~Andreas Feininger
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams
The camera can photograph thought. ~Dirk Bogarde
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~Richard Avedon
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. ~Author Unknown
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. ~Paul Valery
