Lesson Number One: Pay Attention

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.

If A Photographer Cares About The People Before The Lens And Is Compassionate, Much Is Given. It Is The Photographer, Not The Camera, That Is The Instrument.

Recording Sessions Were Stimulating To Photograph, Because Everything Was In Motion: The Subject, The Musicians, The Technicians And The Photographer. You Needed Fast Reflexes To Keep Up With Moving Targets, And Sensitivity And Skill To Get The Pictures While Keeping Out Of The Performers' Eyeline So As Not To Break Their Concentration.

Being A Woman Is Just A Marvelous Plus In Photographing. Men Like To Be Photographed By Women, It Becomes Flirtatious And Fun, And Women Feel Less As If They're Expected To Be In A Relationship.