I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

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.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.