Quotes from Joyce Tenneson

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

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

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

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