Framing is everything. Whether we take a photograph, tell an anecdote, write a story, film or even in the simple act of looking, we make decisions or decisions that are being made for us to shape the perceived reality. The narrative we are being told could be conveyed in one hundred ways as the framing, like our reality, is momentary and ever-changing. Through my project, I aimed to examine how framing only shows partial truth and shapes the reality we want to suggest. The paper model – like the camera, only lets in fragments of information. We inquisitively peek, enticed with pieces of data, concentrate on details, and let the imagination do the rest, allowing it to form knowledge based on our investigation. Additionally, in my proposal, I wish to emphasise the act of composing each photograph by the artist and the viewer, where together we construct a unique, subjective, idiosyncratic picture which exists silently between us like an unkept secret.
AN IMAGE, moving or still, is a glimpse into reality, an interpretation, freedom of choice, a manipulation.
Photography does not simply reproduce the real, it recycles it (…) (S.Sontag) sums up flawlessly the act we engage in when put behind a camera. We accumulate and process materials and turn them into new products. Products that we see fit to present to others, the recycled reality of our choosing.
Ela Skorska 