第一次对摄影感到兴奋是什么时候？对年轻摄影师有何建议？
在这篇马格南网站博客的访谈中，34位摄影师对此都给出了自己的答案。
ABBAS
Get a good pair of walking shoes and…fall in love
买双好鞋，并且……去爱（爱摄影，还是爱别人？）
ALEC SOTH
Try everything. Photojournalism, fashion, portraiture, nudes, whatever. You won’t know what kind of photographer you are until you try it. During one summer vacation (in college) I worked for a born-again tabletop photographer. All day long we’d photograph socks and listen to Christian radio. That summer I learned I was neither a studio photographer nor a born-again Christian. Another year I worked for a small suburban newspaper chain and was surprised to learn that I enjoyed assignment photography. Fun is important. You should like the process and the subject. If you are bored or unhappy with your subject it will show up in the pictures. If in your heart of hearts you want to take pictures of kitties, take pictures of kitties.
去尝试各种摄影：新闻、时装、肖像、人体，任何种类。你不会知道是什么类型的摄影师除非你尝试过。我大学时期有个暑假做了一个桌面摄影师的助理，他是个再生的基督徒，于是我跟着他每天听着天主教电台广播拍摄袜子。在那个夏天我发现自己不适合当影棚摄影师，也不会成为再生基督徒。另一年我为一家郊区报纸工作，那个时候我惊讶地发现自己很喜欢接受拍摄任务。兴趣是最重要的。你应该享受这个过程，并且喜欢拍摄的主题。如果你厌倦了，或者不喜欢这个主题，就会在图片中显现出来。如果你内心想拍摄小猫，那就去拍摄小猫。
ALEX MAJOLI
I would advise to read a lot of literature and look as little as possible other photographers. Work everyday even without assignments or money, work, work, work with discipline for yourself and not for editors or awards. And also collaborate with people not necessary photographers but people you admire. The key word to learn is participation!
我建议多看些文学作品，而尽量少看其他摄影师的作品。每天都要拍摄，哪怕没有任务或者是钱。拍摄，拍摄，拍摄，这必须成为自己的原则，而不是为了图片编辑或者是得奖。同时，也要与别人合作，不光是摄影师，还有你尊敬的人。关键就是要参与进去！
ALEX WEBB
Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards — recognition, financial remuneration — come to so few and are so fleeting. And even if you are somewhat successful, there will almost inevitably be stretches of time when you will be ignored, have little income, or — often — both. Certainly there are many other easier ways to make a living in this society. Take photography on as a passion, not a career.
要因为热爱而去拍摄，因为那种不得不拍的感觉而去拍摄，为了在过程中得到满足而拍摄。其他的收获——别人的赞誉、报酬——这些只有极少数人能够得到，而且是那么的短暂。哪怕你在某种程度上获得了成功，也不可避免地在一段时间之内受到忽视，没有收入。世上有很多容易的谋生方式，把摄影当作自己的兴趣，而不是职业。
ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI
I could use some good advice myselff … but first thing that springs to mind is Bob Dylan’s: “keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”
我自己倒是有不少好建议……但在我脑子里首先跳出来的是鲍勃·迪伦（Bob Dylan）的话：“保持头脑清醒， 带一个电灯泡。”
BRUCE GILDEN
My advice: Photograph who you are!
我的建议是：拍出你自己！
CARL DE KEYZER
Give it all you got for at least 5 years and then decide if you got what it takes. Too many great talents give up at the very beginning; the great black hole looming after the comfortable academy or university years is the number one killer of future talent.
给你自己五年时间然后看看是不是达到了自己的目标。很多有才华的人在开始的时候就放弃了；舒适的学生生涯之后巨大的黑洞是最大的天才杀手。
CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. Don’t be in a rush to make pay your rent with your camera. Jimi Hendrix didn’t decide on the career of rofessional musician before he learned to play guitar. No, he loved music and created something beautiful and that THEN became a profession. Larry Towell, for instance, was not a professional photographer until he was already a famous photographer. Make the pictures you feel compelled to make and perhaps that will lead to a career. But if you try to make the career first, you will just make shitty pictures that you don’t care about.
不要去想成为一个职业摄影师。首先你要当一个摄影师，或许之后自然而然就职业了。不要急着靠拍照付房租。吉米·亨德里克斯（Jimi Hendrix）并不是在学会弹吉他之前就决定当职业音乐人的。他首先热爱音乐，并且创造了一些美妙的曲子，然后才成了音乐家。在拉里·托维尔（Larry Towell）成为职业摄影师之前，早就成了一个著名的摄影师。去拍摄那些你认为不得不拍的影像，或许这会慢慢把你引向职业的道路。但如果你一开始就想着职业，那你只能拍出自己都不在乎的劣质图片。
CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS
1) Never think photography is easy. It’s like poetry in that it’s easy enough to make a few rhymes, but that’s not a good poem.
2) Study photography, see what people have achieved, but learn from it, don’t try photographically to be one of those people.
3) Photograph things you really care about, things that really interest you, not things you feel you ought to do.
4) Photograph them in the way you feel is right, not they way you think you ought to.
5) Be open to criticism, it can be really helpful, but stick to you core values.
6) Study and theory is useful but you learn most by doing. Take photographs, lots of them, be depressed by them, take more, hone your skills and get out there in the world and interact.
1）不要觉得摄影很容易。就想写诗，要写几句韵文或许很容易，但那不足以成为好诗。
2）学习摄影，看看大师们是怎么做的，向他们学习，但不要试图复制他们的影像。
3）去拍那些你真正关心的事物，那些真正吸引你的事物，而不要拍摄你认为你应该拍的东西。
4）用你认为正确的方式去拍，而不要用你认为应该用的方式去拍。
5）愿意接受批评，它们有时是有益的，但是要坚持你的核心价值观。
6）学习和理论有一定的作用，但是你更多地是通过实践来学到东西。拍摄，拍摄很多很多照片，为之沮丧，然后拍摄更多。磨练你的技术，投入大千世界并且做出回应。
CONSTANTINE MANOS
Try not to take pictures, which simply show what something looks like. By the way you put the elements of an image together in a frame show us something we have never seen before and will never see again. And remember that catching a moment makes the image even more unique in the stream of time. Also, try to do workshops with photographers whose work you admire, but first ask around to make sure they are good teachers as well as good photographers. Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible.
不要去拍那些仅仅显示出事物表象的照片。你把图像的各种元素组合在一起的方式就想我们展现了我们未曾见过的东西。更不要忘了，影像中被捕捉下来的瞬间使之在时间的长河里成了唯一。另外，尽量参加你敬重的摄影师的短训班，但首先你得搞清楚他们不仅仅是好摄影师，同时也是好老师。拍出好的照片很简单。创造出很棒的图片很难。创造出伟大的图片几乎是不可能的。