Annie Leibovitz

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo! ”

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color. ”

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view. ”

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen. ”

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house. ”

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. ”

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. ”

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position. ”

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional. ”

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. ”