Martine Franck on Artinfo

Artinfo interviews Martine Franck, whose work Fables I love so much. (Link via the Personism blog.)

I think I started seriously taking photographs because I wanted to meet people and I wanted to have a function. Being a photographer made that possible, because otherwise I was very shy. I found it much easier to talk to people when I was taking photographs, as opposed to just going up to them and talking. Even today it’s fantastic being a photographer because I can call up people and say, “I’d like to take your portrait.” I do that because I want to meet certain people. It’s like meeting your kin, as it were.