Here's a screen grab of some images that I got back last week. Still part of the same project, here's the twist... These are people that I know, yet for me they represent people I meet alone on brighton beach. Intially being denied by people on the beach to talk to them and photograph them aswell, and due to the time frame I had to work in, I decided to stage, no not stage thats not the right word... I decided to interpret, and create these characters from observation I had carried out on the beach.
I dont think that this detracts from the intial documentary aspect of my project. There is the false belief that photographic documentary must follow the discourse of truth, in order to convey its message to the viewer. Yet I feel the real strength in these images, is that even though they are anchored in the real, they are still disconected from the original subject. And allow the viewer not to feel intrusive, or implicit in the photographic exploitative nature, towards the subject.
These then, are objects of scrutiny, observation, meditation, discourse on the subject matter.
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