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“I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.”

Mary Ellen Mark

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A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

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One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

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