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 projects that end up being incredibly laborious. — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. — 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
