A Conversation on ‘Reality’

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I am going to start this (overly long) post with my conclusions: Photography always has and always will depict a constructed reality. Photography is, like all art forms, a product of its time – socially, historically and technologically. The Photographer is always ‘in’ their apparatus of photography – the image reflects their vision and personality. Whilst the unique ‘aura’ of …

Communicating my Photographic Practice

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My best pictures tell an unfinished story, with a sense of place or personality – evoking questions of who, what, where, when. As Hiroji Kubota said, “I think everybody has a great drama to talk about. Everybody”. My photography is about trying to find this story, to illustrate that drama. Or more correctly, it’s about conveying a portion of the …