The Healing Power of Photography

1. “Every day over one billion photos are shared online and I believe we are standing on top of a massive opportunity to change how we see and talk about mental health.” – Bryce Evans

2.The language of photography is symbolic.” — Sebastiao Salgado

3. “I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.” — Harry Callahan

4. “The moment the shutter clicked, I felt a shift within me.” — Bryce Evans

5. “Because it’s free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives – something we take for granted.” — Peter Diamandis

6. “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” ― Susan Sontag

7. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” — Ralph Hattersley

8. “You cannot see the light without the darkness.” — Bryce Evans


9. “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange

10. “When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”
― Aleksandar Hemon

11. “A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.”
― Ansel Adams

12. “A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.” ― Ansel Adams

13. “If we want to change how we see these issues – I think the very thing we need is a new lens to see them through” — Bryce Evans


14. “It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

15. “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” — Elliott Erwitt

16. “There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” — Ernst Haas

17. “When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don’t give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.” — Edward Steichen

18. “Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” — George Eastman

19. “Imagine if every photo was an opportunity to start speaking out about your own depression” – Bryce Evans