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
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
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. Mary Ellen Mark Computers
