Photography Quotes — Page 44

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Photographer

“I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were closing in on the circle of their journey and they had a kind of wisdom that comes from their long life.”

Journey Photography Circles

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.”

Photography Wings Artistic Life

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.”

Photography Growing

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.”

Focus Photography

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.”

People Photography Photographer

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.”

Reality Struggle Photography

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted in the mirror so it is much more than a simple reflection. Sometimes something surprising emerges - some darkness or secret appears without us knowing why or giving it permission.”

Teacher Photography Reflection

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.”

Light Essence Photography

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.”

School Photography Mentor

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.”

Hair Photography Skulls

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete.”

Lying Communication Photography

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Joyce Tenneson

Photographer

“I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.”

People Feelings Photography

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