Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly rare space of contemplation and taking the time and energy to be thoughtful. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
