One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.
In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
Photography is not something you retire from.
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
