23 Quotes by Jim Goldberg

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.