"Are you a photographer?"

[Mark Sawyer]

Q: "Are you a photographer?"

A: "At this moment in time, yes..."

[David R Munson]

"Are you a photographer?"
"I'm a person who does photography."
"So, you're a photographer..."
"No, I'm a person who does photography."
"What are you talking about?"
"Semiotic ghosts. Don't box me in."

[Andre Noble]

"Are you a soldier?"

"Yes, I am a soldier."

[Donald Qualls]

"Are you a photographer?" (spoken while I'm unfolding a camera and setting up my tripod)

"Yep"

"Professional?" (as I'm pulling out the front standard on my 1920s vintage plate camera and distributing the bellows to prevent vignetting)

"Not yet -- haven't found anyone to pay me for this."

Haven't yet had anyone as me if my Speed Graphic was a Hasselblad, though -- I think most of them actually recognize that one, and even if they don't remember what it's called, they're pretty sure it's not Hasselblad.

[John Flavell]

This is my favorite question, especially from the young. And my answer:

"Are you, like, a photographer?"

"No, I'm exactly a photographer. I'm not LIKE anyone you've ever met."



Rodney Dangerfield line from a movie, while he's taking kid pictures:

Mom: "He has my eyes"
Grandmother: "He has my nose"

Dangerfield: "Yeah, and my sympathy"

[lee\c]

Jorge used to have a sig that said, "If you own a piano, you own a piano but if you own a camera you are a photographer." I think that is accurate if not the seniment is the same.

lee\c

[Hugo Zhang]

When I use LF camera to make B&W images, I think the right answer is: "I am an image maker."

[Ken Lee]

"Just as a man shudders with horror when he thinks he has trodden on a serpent, but laughs when he stoops and sees that it is only a rope, so I discovered one day that what I was calling 'I' can not be grasped. All fear and anxiety vanished with my mistake".

- Buddha

[jnantz]

it depends what you mean by photographer

[David Beal]

I'm a writer, writing about the today that will be a memory tomorrow. But I write with light, instead of ink ...