I I don't believe that Robert Penn Warren was writing about dying and death, and I just wanted to take his shirt off.

But it was more like I want to see his skeleton.

He didn't have any guard or shield one of my favorite photographs, Agnes Martin, sitting in her paintings.

Thio, she said to me, I sit here and I wait to be inspired.

I'd love that.

And so I said, Would you just sit there?

Isn't that what we all do?

We wait to be inspired all the work that I've ever done.

The ideas emanate from that person.

Stand over here, Present yourself were so complicated.

Human beings.

There's so many parts to us.

That's where the ideas come from, even the most set up situation.

I believe there's something really going on.

I'm so not a technical photographer camera using.

If that's what you're thinking about your not taking pictures when you first start off, stay with one lens and see what it does.

You may want to open up, have more latitude, so when you go back, you can actually bring it back down and go dark.

I'm constantly trying to emulate natural light.

Where's the light coming from?

She should fall into that tree.

I should love that photograph.

The people close to you, your family, your friends.

That's how I learned when you photograph people.

It's about history.

It's about looking at our time in our culture and our society.

Through portrait ce I never stopped seeing You're seeing all the time.

Don't be afraid to be obsessed.

Take the camera.

Go out in the world.

Find a way to tell a story that means something to you.

I'm Annie Leavis and this is my master class.