There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

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 think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.