Nimoy works in projects and themes in his photographic work today. For him, it’s about a personal vision; is there something about the subject that uniquely speaks to him.

I have shot a lot of pictures that I am very pleased with, but which look like pictures that could have been taken by anybody. I’m attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

I published a book of photographs in the fall of 2002, called Shekhina, and probably for the very first time—in all the years I’ve been doing photography—I produced something that was an absolutely, completely personal vision. I don’t think anyone else has done these images.

Years ago—in the 70s, for about a decade—I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light. I’m still very pleased with some of those photographs and some of them were published in various books I was involved with in the 70s. But I don’t think—unless you are an Ansel Adams and a master of that particular kind of photography—that it makes much sense. My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That’s why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I’m searching for, or searching to express.

If you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Most of my recent images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions. This particular work that I’m so involved with is very dependent on the dynamics and the theatricality of composition and light.

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.