Joyce Tenneson Quotes

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.