It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world. — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens. — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture:… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist. — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home. — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
