Being Disabled Gave Me An Immense Advantage.

Photography Is A Lot Like Telling A Large Predatory Cat What To Do-while An Audience Of People You Can't See Watches You.

When You Are Doing A Lot Of Hard Fast Field Work, It's A Physical Necessity To Forget Every Day. You Can't Try To Remember It In Any Continuity. You Get So Burdened If You Try To Do It The Other Way. You Can't Dictate To Your Material... We Found Our Way In, Slid In On The Edges. We Used Our Hunches. And It Was Hard, Hard Living.

That Frame Of Mind That You Need To Make Fine Pictures Of A Very Wonderful Subject, You Cannot Do It By Not Being Lost Yourself.

I Trust My Instincts. I Don't Distrust Them. They Haven't Led Me Astray. It's When I've Made Up My Mind To Be Efficient That Is When I Have Gone Wrong.

... It Came To Me That What I Had To Do Was To Take Pictures And Concentrate Upon People, Only People, All Kinds Of People, People Who Paid Me And People Who Didn't.