Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was – and how fleeting life is. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
I’m most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That’s my forte. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I’m very touched by kids who don’t have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you’ve seen or thought about. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I’m teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera – which is logistically complicated – and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It’s closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn’t need a caption; it should already convey an idea. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it’s all about that. Mary Ellen Mark Read Quote
