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

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

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

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.

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.

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.

I came to photography by accident.