I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
What I do is create images, period.
A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.
I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.
I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.