Taryn’s World
Traveling from deep inside the C.I.A. To the outer reaches of Chechnya, Taryn Simon has made a career out of photographing the far-fetched. On the occasion of two major museum shows, Joan Juliet Buck tracks down the intrepid 36-year-old. Read the article here.
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Some of the 120 Ukrainian orphans depicted in “A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters,” currently at London’s Tate Modern and Berlin’s Nationalgalerie.
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“A Living Man Declared Dead” at Tate Modern
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“A Living Man Declared Dead” includes images of the dormitory of a Ukrainian orphanage.
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The Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims in 1995
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Lab rabbits at an Australian research facility
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The corpse of a leper floating in the Ganges
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And a hand of a Tanzanian man—the pronounced creases in the shape of the letter M make him a target of human poachers working on behalf of traditional healers.
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An oca plant—among the prohibited items confiscated from passenger luggage at JFK Airport, photographed for Simon’s 2010 show, “Contraband.”
