‘The Moment Staged’
Between Daguerre and Snapchat the applications and distribution of photography have multiplied with the speed of light.
However, the essence of an image stays the same ; can it deepen the experience of the beholder ? Will it expand in several directions concerning meaning and emotion.
The intention of the photographer might reinforce the final experience of the viewer in many ways.
In my constructed photo-works, I reconstruct to intensify a pictorial experience.
The medium of photography can be seen as an immense screen to reflect on our existence, being a translucent membrane of awareness, between the undeniable split second in the here and now, and more poetical dimensions, if they are not happening simultaneously.
Departing from the fact that as a photographer you always walk the road in parallel worlds ; the outward reality in front of you and the dormant icon in your psyche, a slumbering framework with a gnawing void to fulfill with emotionally valuable content.
Working mostly with installations and still-life, I can take the photographic components as time, substance and shape apart, to recreate a reality which encloses the aforementioned need to construct a most personal image, which might have some universal connections.
The need to sculpt a composition beyond flashy daily life, creating a parallel world, perhaps stems from an inner longing for utopic harmony.
Somehow I want to offer the viewer a moment of contemplation ; to invite the beholder to a shift of their mental-set, only for a brief moment, to come back to daily reality with a slightly different perception.
The digital possibilities bring the mixed media nowadays to a higher octave, since now sculptural and graphical elements can be fluently combined, while still reflecting a photographic reality ; the real feel of the photographic experience.
Photography ; the medium par excellence to construct an image between the obvious and the etherial.
