A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

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• Sam Abell:

  Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this

• Sam Abell:

  It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

• Sam Abell:

  I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's abo

• Sam Abell:

  I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what i

• Sam Abell:

  There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what

• Sam Abell:

  My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the b

• Sam Abell:

  Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

• Sam Abell:

  In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take t

• Sam Abell:

  How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of

• Sam Abell:

  I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.