I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus. - Mary Ellen Mark 1 Share Now -
I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one. - Mary Ellen Mark 2 Share Now -
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society. - Mary Ellen Mark 3 Share Now -
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it. - Mary Ellen Mark 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. - Mary Ellen Mark 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
