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ARTIST’S STATEMENT Alicia Haber “Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject, I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself – less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive; less prose, more poetry.” Ernst Haas I intend, most of the time, to question the concepts of “realism” and “truth” of photography. Rejecting the evident and staying away from stereotypes is dear to me. Visual ambiguities, overtones and allusions are very appealing to me. I let images to be seen, to stay in the picture, even if they are blurred or duplicated. I often try to create photos that would stimulate the viewers to look more than once. I would like them to stop in front of the image and reflect on what they are looking. One of my goals is to problematize the viewers’ gaze “I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden, we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.” Saul Leiter A tendency to abstraction moves me and it is present in the blurred images, the use of silhouettes, reflections and the double or triple figures. Blurred motion also helps me create more suggestive and connota