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 Romantic
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 Travel
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society. -Mary Ellen Mark Society
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 Work
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 Travel
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. -Mary Ellen Mark Computers
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 Travel
