So first of all, tell me why you removed the person from this photo.
I became very interested in historical photography, and the idea that they could be altered to actually change history. As well, I’m also interested in snapshot kind of pictures, non-professional, more raw. So this is part of that idea; this one (Kremlin) is actually a picture from my family album where I took out myself.
How do you feel that this particular piece fits in with it all?
I feel like it has something to say about memory and ideas and, of course, history; how we remember things. Removing myself from the history- remaking history as well as remaking the image itself.
How was post-production for you, given the way you are editing your photographs
Well obviously these days there is a lot of post production being done on photoshop; it was certainly a different experience physically, instead of digitally altering my photos.
What are you thinking when you take pictures?
Well when ever I take pictures I am pretty much thinking the same thing- identity, memory, history. But I find a lot of beauty in, I guess, not stereotypical images; snapshots, Polaroids.
Where does this, and your post-production, fit in to your previous ideas about history and image editing?
Whats really interesting is that our images really are how we want to be represented. And, especially in these days, we are really saturated with images. So snapshots for me are interesting because of how much they have to say- about how we want to be seen, remembered, represented. For me it was a way to look at society; images are edited in photoshop for fashion magazines and cause real situations; anorexia, you know. So with this work its obviously a different case, but my editing here is obvious; instead of a trying to disappear the act. I think that heavily physical post-production really comes naturally after working with all the materials.
I would have liked to have seen her pictures. Not sure I did. I liked seeing the attendants.