Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has …

- Taryn Simon

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

- Taryn Simon

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

- Taryn Simon

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

- Taryn Simon

The majority of my work is about preparation.

- Taryn Simon

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

- Taryn Simon

Photography threatens fantasy.

- Taryn Simon

Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even let…

- Taryn Simon

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions…

- Taryn Simon