Chris Roche - Statement
Photography is a singularly consuming passion and has been a daily part of my life for many years.
A photograph is an illusion of a literal description of how a camera saw a set of information put before it. It is a figment of reality of how the lens saw time and space. Putting 4 edges around that information set changes it’s context and further supports the illusion. Photographs have no inherent meaning or narrative content in my view. I'm interested in the inherent enigmatic qualities of the photographic medium over the idea reportage. I feel that the well-crafted photograph is inherently largely without context and is therefore an abstraction. Working around this idea allows me more respect for the medium. If I walk away from any preconceptions, it is always a surprise to me what has been pictured by an intuitive approach to the process. It is this surprise and the attendant perceptual paradigm shift that keeps me involved and working in the medium.
- Chris Roche
