Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences… Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another. — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth. — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy. — Taryn Simon Copy Share
You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information. — Taryn Simon Copy Share
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again,… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is… — Taryn Simon Copy Share
My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. — Taryn Simon Copy Share
