You Can't Make A Great Musician Or

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.

A Studio Session ... Provides The Greatest Chance For Control. Even Though There Is Total Freedom, I Still Dislike Studio Photography And The Contrived Images That Usually Stem From This Genre.

I Had In Mind A Long Career.

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.

The Instrument Is Not The Camera But The Photographer.