My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art.

There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.