chris peken
p h o t o g r a p h y
Chris Peken is a SE Asia based photographer. He has had five solo exhibitions - Exposed, The Faces of St Marys, The Lost Boys of Sudan, Seeking Refuge and User Friendly. He has featured in Australian Photography magazine, on the 7.30 Report, and has a photo book Kibera, showing life in Nairobi's biggest slum suburb.
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"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." - Robert Capa
"It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed" - Sebastiao Salgado
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” -
David Alan Harvey
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” - Richard Avedon
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.” - Annie Leibovitz
"Photographing to see what something looks like photographed." - Garry Winogrand
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” - Edward Steichen
“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” - Gilles Peress
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” - Robert Frank
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." - Ansel Adams