This was interesting to me because people still have an instinct to perceive photographs as captured “decisive moments”. There is a kind of hang-over of what photography used to be - instantaneous, reliable, verifiable documents that recorded truth, but in a digital age this definition isn’t true anymore. The conflict with how photographs are perceived and what they actually are seemed like very fertile territory to me. This conflict set up interesting resonances in the way the images are read . Pictures that took weeks to construct were still read as instantaneous moments. This enabled me to play with ideas to do with fragmentation, fiction and truth.

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