What I Have Tried To Do Is

I Look For A Sense Of Reality With Everything I Did. I Didn't Work In A Studio, I Didn't Light Anything. I Found A Way Of Working Which Pleased Me Because I Didn't Have To Frighten People With Heavy Equipment. It Was That Little Black Box And Me And £5 Worth Of Film In My Pocket Or Maybe It Was Only £2 In Those Days.

I Have Been Poor And I Wanted To Document Poverty; I Had Lost A Child And I Was Obsessed With Birth; I Was Interested In Politics And I Wanted To Know How It Affected Our Lives; I Am A Woman And I Wanted To Know About Women.

What Do You Hang On The Walls Of Your Mind?

If You Are Careful With People, They Will Offer You Part Of Themselves. That Is The Big Secret.

It Doesn’t Matter If You Use A Box Camera Or A Leica, The Important Thing Is What Motivates You When You Are Photographing. What I Have Tried To Do Is Involve The People I Was Photographing. To Have Them Realize Without Saying So, That It Was Up To Them To Give Me Whatever They Wanted To Give Me . . . If They Were Willing To Give, I Was Willing To Photograph.