I was about social documentary, telling stories of how people lived. So I did not come into this work as an artist or conceptual image-maker. I did this project about the French aristocracy in photographs, and photography proved to be a very accessible medium I could just take my camera and tape recorder and make pictures and interview people and document how they lived. I decided I wanted to do filmmaking, applied to film schools and tried to get grants, but nothing worked out. I realized I was interested in culture – that was my calling – but I did not know how to express this. This gave me a year going around the world studying film and anthropology, living with families in nine countries. I went to Harvard, not art school, and studied social studies and then visual anthropology. I did not start with just photography and I am not ending up with it, as I make films as well, but it has been the dominant expression for me.
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