For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
I've discovered that being behind the camera is more fascinating. If I had to choose a profession today, it would have been something behind the camera.
I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )
I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.
There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
