There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.

- Justine Kurland

Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from …

- Justine Kurland

I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway…

- Justine Kurland

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, w…

- Justine Kurland

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

- Justine Kurland

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking in…

- Justine Kurland

The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else t…

- Justine Kurland

If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing alrea…

- Justine Kurland