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

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.

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

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

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

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.