The Good Image

Photography is a medium which raises many questions; questions about authenticity, materiality, manipulation, subjectivity, indexicality. The medium has the ability to act like a chameleon, embedding itself within many disciplines. This, as well as the fact that photography always captures a piece of a certain reality, are unique features of the medium. In the search for some sort of answer or inspiration, I visited a bookstore, where I came upon a photography manual from the 1960's. The book sought to instruct its readers on proper photography and to assert the makings of a great photograph. This encounter stuck with me, resonating as thoughts on the numerous possibilities photography has to offer. In the work presented I create representations of emotional experiences through the act of rewriting and reproducing. Each photograph is built in a multilayered process which takes place over a period of time. The photographic image has no final form, it is in a never ending flux. A broad range of actions have been applied to the portraits; photographed, scanned, printed in both analog and digital, ripped and cut, until finally the portrait is reconstructed into a new form. The images are reassembled to a photographic moment in time, over and over again.