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I'm working with people that
I know from a long time.
So sometimes it's easier,
sometimes it's more complicated.
And I'm working with a large format camera,
so that means silence,
that means kind of a ritual.
I really like this medium for this project because it allows me also to spend time on location,
on set,
to figure out how to achieve and how to build the image that I'm looking for.
If you think about it,
Photography has,
let's say,
generally speaking,
three conditions.
First condition is the image as a mirror of reality.
That's something that you have.
It's an index,
right?
It's a handprint that you have on the photographic surface.
Then you have a second condition that it's a translation of that reality that of course is conditioned by the framing,
the photographic surface,
if it's colored,
if it's black and white.
which type of medium you use and which type of technology you use.
And then a third moment that is quite interesting as well,
that photography produces reality.
It's an autonomous entity that produces another type of reality that is completely different from the reality that we see.
And this third moment interests me a lot,
especially in this last project,
because it would allow me to make
or to build,
hopefully,
an autonomous reality of the actual reality that I'm seeing.