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.
Sally MannWhat is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.
Sally MannI like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.
Sally MannWhen the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
Sally MannThere's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better.
Sally Mann