Justine Kurland Quotes

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.

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

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.

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.