The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes .…

- Richard Misrach

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

- Richard Misrach

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.

- Richard Misrach

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

- Richard Misrach

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 …

- Richard Misrach

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

- Richard Misrach

People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical…

- Richard Misrach

... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me t…

- Richard Misrach

I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best …

- Richard Misrach