You make history when you do business.

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.