“I’m going to begin with the most emphatic remark. The most shocking. Photography is nothing more than a means of reproduction. Period.”
—Josep Maria Casademont

"Holding a camera in front of the face or against the chest, framing the image in the viewfinder, pressing the shutter release, are forms of encounter with the self as much as with the world; just like, in another way, the choices of developing―or having a photo developed―of looking at it, commenting on it, or on the contrary hiding or even destroying it."
―Serge Tisseron

"The Third World woman revolts: we revoke, we erase your white male imprint. When you come knocking on our doors with your rubber stamps to brand our faces with DUMB, HYSTERICAL, PASSIVE PUTA, PERVERT[...], we will vomit the guilt, self-denial and race-hatred you have force-fed into us right back into your mouth."
—Gloria Anzaldúa

‘‘The panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheral ring, one is totally seen without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.’’
—‘Discipline and Punish’, Michel Foucault

‘‘[…] setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city, made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them.’’
—‘Invisible Cities’, Italo Calvino

‘‘But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress’’
— Walter Benjamin