My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
Taryn SimonYou come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.
Taryn SimonThere is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.
Taryn Simon