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In “Aidswalk 2005 NewYork”, New Republic Series, I took photographs on crowded streets where an event was taking place. I use the traditional photographic technique of burning in the darkroom in a nontraditional manner: not as a tool to improve the quality of images, but as a method for creating new photographic images. What you see in the photograph is not the entire scene of a particular photographic moment, but rather a selectively isolated figure emerging and disappearing from its original context, which has been whitened to the point of imperceptibility. The process of making these photographs mimics the process of drawing, but with light in complete darkness. The erasure of social, cultural or political context not only raises questions about the materials and the subject of documentary photography in the digital age, but also through examining the nature of Desire, to question the forms of political engagement and to further destabilize the system that constructs our everyday reality. . |
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