Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, …

- Mark Klett

Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of…

- Mark Klett

In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the dir…

- Mark Klett

I am interested in making photographs which comment on the experience of a place as well as describe it. My position has not typically been one of ad…

- Mark Klett

So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The interesting thing is to make use of t…

- Mark Klett

The most prevalent way of working in photography right now is project oriented: you go after an idea. I like the old way, the intuitive approach. You…

- Mark Klett

I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the distance one often fee…

- Mark Klett