I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

- Barbara Ess

When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being …

- Barbara Ess

Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.

- Barbara Ess

...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is …

- Barbara Ess