Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Christophe Agou

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French photographer Christophe Agou.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Christophe Agou

Christophe Agou was a French documentary photographer and street photographer who lived in New York City. His work has been published in books and is held in public collections. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.
Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.
The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed. — © Christophe Agou
The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.
When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.
Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth.
With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
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