I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
