Birney Imes

"So appealing in Birney Imes’s photographs is the sensation they create in us that here we are being shown, are even intruding on things – expressions of face, dispositions of furniture in rooms, eventful effects of light – that have not been shown before and that seem secret, even forbidden, exotic to us, even though we may have stood in those very rooms and roads ourselves, or believe we know what lies outside each frame." - Robert Ford