The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

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 came to photography by accident.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.