Documents of time and place.

These photographs are a document of found objects within a defined place and produced with the same respect and standards expected of a historian. Still they are photographs and therefore subject to all the failings of the medium, precisely their ability to lie.

Stripping these straight photographic images of any distinguishable representation should cause some initial unease. As we are all accustomed to believing that what the camera sees is so directly related to the object photographed. So much so that they often become indistinguishable. If you need to, just pretend they are paintings and almost all of your discomfort will fade away.

The first important question I’m exploring in my photographic work is to challenge the assumption: “what is photographed is more important than why.”

Lying to Tell the Truth