Fanny, Montalivet, France, 2009.

Photograph by Jock Sturges

“No one picture is precisely true but in the aggregate a cumulative portrait begins to approximate the truth of the person depicted. In a complicated way, the truth also dwells in the spaces between the pictures. There is much there that fascinates. And the better I know a model the more I am able to discern whether or not any given picture is true to them. There, you see. I have used the words ‘true’ and ‘truth’ four times in just a few sentences. That’s my ambition. Not my IDEA of the truth, but the truth itself.” 

- Jock Sturges, Seattle, April 2010