I came to photography by accident..

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contriv….

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as….

Themes recur again and again in my work..

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera..

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the ins….

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity..

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted t….

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camer….

I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me be….

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do i….

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you..

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to kno….

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens..

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera..

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer..

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is..

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing..

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret..

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there..