There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

- Jim Goldberg

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

- Jim Goldberg

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

- Jim Goldberg

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

- Jim Goldberg

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

- Jim Goldberg

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

- Jim Goldberg

This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed …

- Jim Goldberg

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs thro…

- Jim Goldberg

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

- Jim Goldberg