There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.