तस्वीरें आपसे यह नहीं कहतीं कि इन लोगों की मदद करें, बल्कि उससे कहीं अधिक कठिन काम करने को कहती हैं—वह यह कि आप कुछ पल के लिए ही सही, पूरी शिद्दत से उनके वजूद को महसूस करें, एक ऐसा वजूद जो आपके अपने वजूद जितना ही वास्तविक और महत्वपूर्ण है।

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Thought-provoking 95%

कैमरा इस्तेमाल करना हमेशा से मेरे लिए दुनिया को टटोलने का एक जरिया, यात्रा करने का एक बहाना, दूसरों के मामलों में दखल देने और अक्सर किसी मुसीबत में फंस जाने का जरिया रहा है।

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 98%

मैं इतिहास बदलना और मानवता को बचाना चाहता था। लेकिन इस प्रक्रिया में मैंने खुद को बदल लिया और अपनी ही मानवता को बचाए रखा।

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

Topic Self & Identity Transformation
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Paradox 95%

बचपन में मुझे बहुत सी चीजों से डर लगता था, लेकिन जैसे ही मैंने हाथ में कैमरा थामा, मैंने खुद को उन चीजों के सामने ला खड़ा किया जो मेरे लिए अनजान थीं और जिनसे मैं हमेशा डरता था।

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

मैं जो कुछ भी देखता हूँ, उसके लिए पूरी तरह जिम्मेदार महसूस करता हूँ। मैं जो कुछ भी कैमरे में कैद करता हूँ, उसके लिए पूरी तरह जिम्मेदार महसूस करता हूँ।

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Reflection 95%

एक फोटोग्राफर होना बहुत अजीब बात है।

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%

मेरे जिम के लॉकर रूम के गेट पर लगे बोर्ड पर लिखा है, कृपया सेल फोन का इस्तेमाल न करें, क्योंकि सेल फोन कैमरे होते हैं। पर वे कैमरे नहीं होते। एक असली कैमरा Nikon, Leica या Rolleiflex होता है, और जब आप उससे किसी को मारते हैं, तो उन्हें अहसास होता है कि उन्हें किसी ठोस चीज से चोट लगी है।

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

Tone: Witty Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%

शायद इसी क्रम में, मैं एक बाइकर, एक फोटोग्राफर और इतिहास का छात्र था। (अपने शुरुआती वर्षों के बारे में)

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

Topic Self & Identity Identity
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Reflection 95%

अगर 'द वाइल्ड वन' आज के समय में फिल्माई जाती, तो मार्लन ब्रैंडो और ब्लैक रेबेल मोटरसाइकिल क्लब के सभी सदस्यों को हेलमेट पहनना पड़ता। मुझे पहले डर था कि जब (हेल्स) एंजिल्स फिल्मी सितारे बन जाएंगे और कैलिफोर्निया उस किताब का हीरो बन जाएगा, तो यह बाइकर संस्कृति अमेरिका के कॉफी टेबल की शोभा बनकर रह जाएगी। लेकिन अब मुझे लगता है कि इस लोकप्रियता में उन लोगों की असल जिंदगी जितनी गहराई नहीं है जिन्हें यह समझना चाहती है, और जब तक हार्ले-डेविडसन मोटरसाइकिलें बनती रहेंगी, तब तक नए बाइकर आते रहेंगे, जो शिकागो से लेकर सिसेरो की गलियों तक अनजान और खूबसूरत सफर तय करते रहेंगे।

If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

Topic Society & World Society
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Observation 95%

[चीजों को चलाने वाले लोग] आज जिस तरह से काम करते हैं, उसमें वे बेहद सफल हैं। वे मुझे कुछ पुरानी तस्वीरें देकर खरीद सकते हैं, वे मुझसे कोई विज्ञापन करवा सकते हैं, या मुझे कोई मेडल दे सकते हैं... पूंजीवादी देशों में कलाकारों को इसलिए नवाजा जाता है क्योंकि हम समाज के लिए बेअसर होते हैं।

[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual.

[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual.

Topic Society & World Politics
Tone: Cynical Sentiment: Negative Type: Observation 92%