Justine Kurland
[Photographer, b. 1969, Warsaw, New York, lives mostly on the road.]
The communities I visited are a continuation or remnant of the pioneer dream, and [my] photographs operate inside the American tradition of picturing a more perfect world. 
We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.