don’t worry I’m a professional
photography has the power to good
photography has the power powered power
the power to undo your assumptions about
the world change your perspective on
life and surprise people with something
that they had no idea existed inspired
horrifying stop time for a moment
there’s an incredible passport to
people’s lives images are so powerful
that they can change the course of
people’s lives they can change the
course of history photography can change
the world never underestimate the power
is still frame how can we make the
horror that we see in these pictures
stop when people see those photographs I
hope that they are overcome with a sense
of urgency I want them to ask and scream
for change to see that oh that could be
me and make connections between people
it’s a universal language one little
hammer a weapon that guys what’s wrong
out there you have to care you really
have to care it sounds simple Brett well
I even get emotional sometimes my
daughter well you cannot do superior
work if you’re indifferent how’re you
gonna do that it’s not the individual
photograph it’s what you do with it and
who you engage with it that makes it
powerful well we live in a world where
it’s easy to say that people don’t care
anymore
it’s been proven to me time and again
that people do care how could you ever
be done no you don’t ever think you done
you just have to do it there’s always
one more picture just funniness
it takes like years of working wait a
minute one more just to hone your vision
then I’ll be done no it won’t the moment
you think you’ve got it you you’re dead
I think it is an addiction to be in the
presence of powerful human emotions to
see the incredible beauty and desperate
circumstances that people are able to
survive in
to see the rope nature of humanity I
photograph to understand you name it we
can do it you could drop us off any
place on earth and we get the job done
we would it’s all we’ve ever done what
does it take to be an underwater
photographer we go to the ends of the
earth and then we go underwater there is
nothing more beautiful captivating
amazing spiritual as what’s around us
right now I try and cover the emotion
and the moment and if there is any way
to make it a bit beautiful and intense
and wonderful is what I’m seeing right
now in front of me the goal for me is to
not turn the reader away the goal for me
is to pull in the reader and to have
them ask questions and that’s what I’m
trying to bring to people that’s what I
really try and do we’re not operating in
a vacuum human beings you know can’t
exist alone and I find that some little
tiny beetle with bright green eyes is no
less magnificent than a grizzly bear and
no less magnificent than me my main
subject has been the collision between
human needs and nature and that contact
zone I’ve always believed is one of the
critical issues of our time we’ll never
understand
communities that are not like ourselves
without time everyone who take a good
picture especially now but to take great
photographs you need time you need
patience you need support
National Geographic gives you done it
might not happen with one image it might
take thousands of images layered in a
consciousness a national consciousness
of an individual consciousness to really
move people forward move people to
action but I do believe images have that
power power to open your mind change
your life connect to you to the rest of
the world it makes me feel alive and
connected to the world and maybe so just
brief little moments I feel like maybe I
understand something about the world
what I have learned traveling and
photographing in so many countries is
that there is not one right way of
living it’s more important how people
are the same than how they’re different
to revel in the complexity and beauty of
the natural world
and then to remember that to to then
apply that to my human neighbors as well
we are all human beings with desires
with tragedies with joy with laughter
and that is much more than what
separates us if you want to be a
photographer particularly a
photojournalist you want to learn about
the world and you want to learn about
yourself and you want to find things
that you genuinely care about because
that would be the source of the greatest
work you’ll do
okay here’s my standard one-liner bit of
advice if you want to be a better
photographer stand in front of more
interesting stuff that’s it you can go
home now
you
photography has the power to good
photography has the power powered power
the power to undo your assumptions about
the world change your perspective on
life and surprise people with something
that they had no idea existed inspired
horrifying stop time for a moment
there’s an incredible passport to
people’s lives images are so powerful
that they can change the course of
people’s lives they can change the
course of history photography can change
the world never underestimate the power
is still frame how can we make the
horror that we see in these pictures
stop when people see those photographs I
hope that they are overcome with a sense
of urgency I want them to ask and scream
for change to see that oh that could be
me and make connections between people
it’s a universal language one little
hammer a weapon that guys what’s wrong
out there you have to care you really
have to care it sounds simple Brett well
I even get emotional sometimes my
daughter well you cannot do superior
work if you’re indifferent how’re you
gonna do that it’s not the individual
photograph it’s what you do with it and
who you engage with it that makes it
powerful well we live in a world where
it’s easy to say that people don’t care
anymore
it’s been proven to me time and again
that people do care how could you ever
be done no you don’t ever think you done
you just have to do it there’s always
one more picture just funniness
it takes like years of working wait a
minute one more just to hone your vision
then I’ll be done no it won’t the moment
you think you’ve got it you you’re dead
I think it is an addiction to be in the
presence of powerful human emotions to
see the incredible beauty and desperate
circumstances that people are able to
survive in
to see the rope nature of humanity I
photograph to understand you name it we
can do it you could drop us off any
place on earth and we get the job done
we would it’s all we’ve ever done what
does it take to be an underwater
photographer we go to the ends of the
earth and then we go underwater there is
nothing more beautiful captivating
amazing spiritual as what’s around us
right now I try and cover the emotion
and the moment and if there is any way
to make it a bit beautiful and intense
and wonderful is what I’m seeing right
now in front of me the goal for me is to
not turn the reader away the goal for me
is to pull in the reader and to have
them ask questions and that’s what I’m
trying to bring to people that’s what I
really try and do we’re not operating in
a vacuum human beings you know can’t
exist alone and I find that some little
tiny beetle with bright green eyes is no
less magnificent than a grizzly bear and
no less magnificent than me my main
subject has been the collision between
human needs and nature and that contact
zone I’ve always believed is one of the
critical issues of our time we’ll never
understand
communities that are not like ourselves
without time everyone who take a good
picture especially now but to take great
photographs you need time you need
patience you need support
National Geographic gives you done it
might not happen with one image it might
take thousands of images layered in a
consciousness a national consciousness
of an individual consciousness to really
move people forward move people to
action but I do believe images have that
power power to open your mind change
your life connect to you to the rest of
the world it makes me feel alive and
connected to the world and maybe so just
brief little moments I feel like maybe I
understand something about the world
what I have learned traveling and
photographing in so many countries is
that there is not one right way of
living it’s more important how people
are the same than how they’re different
to revel in the complexity and beauty of
the natural world
and then to remember that to to then
apply that to my human neighbors as well
we are all human beings with desires
with tragedies with joy with laughter
and that is much more than what
separates us if you want to be a
photographer particularly a
photojournalist you want to learn about
the world and you want to learn about
yourself and you want to find things
that you genuinely care about because
that would be the source of the greatest
work you’ll do
okay here’s my standard one-liner bit of
advice if you want to be a better
photographer stand in front of more
interesting stuff that’s it you can go
home now
you
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