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There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand that you have to make somebody feel completely comfortable in order to bring that out.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous.

Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.

It's particularly important for a young woman to be in control of her image - to a certain extent. I mean, there's only so much you can do, because people take photos with you and then all of a sudden they pop up all over the place, they're completely out of context and you have no control over how they're used.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.