There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.