few days ago I went to the previously announced sale of the book Christopher Jurecki search for the meaning of photography. Conversations about art, containing 20 interviews with Polish photographers. Among the callers was also the author of this blog - I put the following fragment of the conversation, on the issue of honesty in photography, and so one of the fundamental values \u200b\u200bthat should guide the developers in the process of being implemented. At least I'm trying to follow it ...
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KJ: Asking about the limits of the document I have in mind also, and perhaps above all, ethical limits.
Me: Photo must be accompanied by absolute honesty. Do not interfere with reality, and her only symptom should be our choice. It seems to me that any staging or processing, by its very nature contradict the notion of a document and bring to these photographs unnecessary chaos.
This is a very radical statement, and the cardinal, but how feasible? In landscape photography, yes, but shooting people in the situation, as in Salgado, very hard!
course it is very difficult, because so few have the good of this type, also in the reportage. I think the obstacle is first and foremost a lack of determination and humility of photographers - it is hard to deal with the subject over a long period of time, and the effects of this work to wait even a few years ... You can not treat human subjects. Attitudes that can meet these requirements is unfortunately rare.
Sebastiao Salgado said that the moral content is more important than the form of photos, how to comment on?
I think that morality is one of the elementary values \u200b\u200bnot just in photography but in our lives. You can not live in harmony with yourself and stay at the same time in a hypocrisy. In this condition, we can not do candid photos. It is like using fake words. The form and is the secondary, in the end to go through life with dignity is not enough to look good.
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