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

- 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

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of f…

- Richard Misrach

One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of …

- Richard Misrach

To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation …

- Richard Misrach

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

- 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

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