“The studio became, for each of us, a sort of neutral area. It was not their home, as I had brought this alien enclosure into their lives: it was not my home as I had obviously come from elsewhere, from far away. But in this limbo there was for us both the possibility of contact that was a revelation to me and often, I could tell, a moving experience for the subjects themselves, who without words-by only their stance and their concentration-were able to say much that spanned the gulf between our different worlds”

~ Irving Penn