I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.
Laurie SimmonsI think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?
Laurie SimmonsI use people that are close to me, like a studio assistant or a friend, someone I know who's going to really enjoy it. It's important to me to have men inside there, too, because so many dollers are men. It's putting me into a pretty odd headspace, the shooting, because I understand the motivation of these dollers to dress up. There's a way that you start to prefer the reality of that world to your own world. It's so much more beautiful.
Laurie SimmonsI was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.
Laurie Simmons