Best quotes by Mary Ellen Mark on People

Checkout quotes by Mary Ellen Mark on People

• ‟ I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

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• ‟ The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

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• ‟ If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

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• ‟ Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

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• ‟ I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

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• ‟ A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.

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• ‟ I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.

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