What I'm trying to do is to get a glimpse into the secret state that surrounds us all the time but that… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
In human geography, we think about landscapes as being political, social, cultural, economic, and physical things all at the same time. And… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
In the very near future, I guarantee that the pictures you post on social media will affect your credit rating, health and… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread.… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
