Carrie Mae Weems

My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used…

— Carrie Mae Weems

In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

— Carrie Mae Weems

I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think…

— Carrie Mae Weems

“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace. We turn to it constantly, whether you are listening to music,…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

— Carrie Mae Weems

You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes…

— Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind…

— Carrie Mae Weems

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

— Carrie Mae Weems

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

— Carrie Mae Weems

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to…

— Carrie Mae Weems

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism...…

— Carrie Mae Weems

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and…

— Carrie Mae Weems

It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I love the city. I love the energy of New York and what happens here. But I'm very happy I don't live…

— Carrie Mae Weems