I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine …

- Laurel Nakadate

Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the way, while we've …

- Laurel Nakadate

Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that.

- Laurel Nakadate

Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing tha…

- Laurel Nakadate

[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this love…

- Laurel Nakadate

I find some comfort in running through the worst-case scenario in my mind and seeing how it's all going to go down.

- Laurel Nakadate

Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where…

- Laurel Nakadate

Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience.…

- Laurel Nakadate

The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not look. If you're really paying attenti…

- Laurel Nakadate