A photographic imagination
A post at Ron Diorio’s blog describes his working methods. Ron of course works digitally, but even so this is well worth a read.
So the use of photography is different. It is not the decisive moment frozen. It is a more measured purposeful encounter - the creation of the physical object. This is what I consider to be the “art”. The screen image or the photographic print is the object, the document of my process where the image becomes an image of itself. An event takes place but the viewer doesn’t experience that. They experience the idea of that. And ideally the viewer will have an experience where they will respond to the pictures - think about their own memories, perceptions and premonitions.
What I love is this process that you can go outside right now and capture something and then transform and present them as an idea, my imagination of the experience rather than the experience itself. There is a lot of imagination in reality. You just have to look for it.