What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

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.

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.