Photographer

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.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.

I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

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.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.

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.

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

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.