Justine Kurland
[Photographer, b. 1969, Warsaw, New York, lives mostly on the road.]
I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs… So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.
Ralph Gibson
[Photographer, b. 1939, Los Angeles, California, lives in New York.]
One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn’t fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, “Someday I’m going to be a photographer!” It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had.
