Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

- Ruth Orkin

My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking peop…

- Ruth Orkin

To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye…

- Ruth Orkin