I Had In Mind A Long Career.

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 Know How It Affected Our Lives; I Am A Woman And I Wanted To Know About Women.

What Has Changed Is That When I Photographed, Most People That I Photographed Didn't Have The Right Of Refusal On Their Work. It Would Take A Marilyn Monroe At Her Height To Be Able To Dictate That.

If You Are Careful With People, They Will Offer You Part Of Themselves. That Is The Big Secret.

Themes Recur Again And Again In My Work.

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 Camera But The Photographer.