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
There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist. — 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
