ART & DESIGN

Taryn’s World


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Photograph: Rineke Dijkstra

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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Photograph: Rineke Dijkstra
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Illustrator: Taryn Simon

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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Illustrator: Taryn Simon

“A Living Man Declared Dead” at Tate Modern

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Illustrator: Taryn Simon

“A Living Man Declared Dead” includes images of the dormitory of a Ukrainian orphanage.

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Illustrator: Taryn Simon

The Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims in 1995

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Illustrator: Taryn Simon

Lab rabbits at an Australian research facility

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Illustrator: Taryn Simon

The corpse of a leper floating in the Ganges

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Illustrator: Taryn Simon

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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Illustrator: Taryn Simon

An oca plant—among the prohibited items confiscated from passenger luggage at JFK Airport, photographed for Simon’s 2010 show, “Contraband.”