“Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.” ThinkingIdeasChallengesGonePeriodsSimplicityComplicatedLooking BackChallenging Myself Author:Tim Walker
“The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.” WayKindHas BeensWarEnoughProblemLibertyEconomicPeriodsLateBottomVariousComplicatedMenaceNormalcyPersonal Liberty Author:Benton MacKaye
“It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when everyone's doing something different every day - that we look for those stylistic similarities and we say, "Well, that's what that was about," and sort of forget all the other nuance. I definitely feel that that's true for this time in my community of artists, and I'm sure that it was true at other times too.” FeelsTryingWellsLooksDifferentArtistCommunityForgetPeriodsComplicatedMake SenseSimilarityNuance Author:Missy Mazzoli
“The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.” LittlesCountryTodayBitsNumbersGoneMiddleRevolutionPeriodsLittle BitComplicatedEastRadicalMiddle East1960sMonarchyTurmoil Author:Adel al-Jubeir