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

- 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

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

I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best …

- 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

The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws ev…

- 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

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

- Richard Misrach