Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you… — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility… — Trevor Paglen Invisible 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 Future Copy Share Image
Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field… — Trevor Paglen Photography Copy Share Image
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world. — Trevor Paglen Logic Copy Share Image
Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them. — Trevor Paglen Anything Copy Share Image
If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be… — Trevor Paglen Air Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think… — Trevor Paglen Create Copy Share Image
When you look at the number of satellites, what they're doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying… — Trevor Paglen Dreams Copy Share Image
If you are a plane-spotter, and you are interested in the history of a particular aircraft, you know there are many documents… — Trevor Paglen Available Copy Share Image
The NRO is like a secret twin to NASA. It's the U.S.' 'other' space agency. The agency is about as old as… — Trevor Paglen Existence Copy Share Image
I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an… — Trevor Paglen Everything Copy Share Image
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. — Trevor Paglen Architecture Copy Share Image
I want to help develop a visual and cultural vocabulary around surveillance. — Trevor Paglen Help Copy Share Image
If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen. — Trevor Paglen Anything Copy Share Image
How has the sky been transformed by drones? How has the ocean been transformed by the fact that over 90% of the… — Trevor Paglen Drones Copy Share Image
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology. — Trevor Paglen Always Copy Share Image
At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field. — Trevor Paglen Depth Copy Share Image
What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they… — Trevor Paglen Alive Copy Share Image
“No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the… — Trevor Paglen Laws of physics Copy Share Image
Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and… — Trevor Paglen Always Copy Share Image
The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it… — Trevor Paglen Communication Copy Share Image
Engineers working in the 'black world' of classified military projects are often referred to in military circles as 'black hats.' There are… — Trevor Paglen Between Copy Share Image
It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters. — Trevor Paglen Bounty Copy Share Image
