The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Books
Passport (Lustrum Press 1974)
Ward 81 (Simon & Schuster 1979)
Falkland Road (Knopf 1981)
Mother Teresa's Mission of Charity in Calcutta (Friends of Photography 1985)
Streetwise (second printing Aperture 1992)
Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years (Bulfinch 1991)
Indian Circus (Chronicle Books 1993 and Takarajimasha 1993)
Portraits (Motta Fotografica 1995 and Smithsonian 1997)
A Cry for Help (Simon & Schuster 1996)
Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey (Aperture 1999)
Mary Ellen Mark 55 (Phaidon Press 2001)
Photo Poche: Mary Ellen Mark (Nathan 2002)
Twins (Aperture 2003)
Mary Ellen Mark: Exposure (Phaidon Press 2005)
Extraordinary Child (National Museum of Iceland 2007)
Seen Behind the Scene (Phaidon Press 2008)
Prom (J. She has described her approach to her subjects: "I’ve always felt that children and teenagers are not "children" they’re small people. Kennedy Journalism Awards and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mary Ellen Mark (born March 20 1940) is an American photographer known for her photojournalism portraiture and advertising photography. She has received numerous accolades including three Robert F.