Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.