Richard Misrach Quotes

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.