Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted in the mirror so it is much more than a simple reflection. Sometimes something surprising… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my camera as a mirror for my subjects as well. I remember photographing a woman in… — 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… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
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
