Mary Ellen Mark
  • Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

  • I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

  • There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

  • I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.