It's The Hardest Thing In The World

I Realize That I Had The Best Of Serious Picture Journalism.

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.

I Found A Way Of Working Which Pleased Me Because I Didn’t Have To Frighten People With Heavy Equipment. It Was That Little Black Box And Me.

I Realise That I Had The Best Of Serious Picture Journalism. There Was An Innocence In Our Approach, Especially In The 1950s And 1960s When We Naively Believed That By Holding A Mirror Up To The World We Could Help - No Matter How Little - To Make People Aware Of The Human Condition.