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Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused. . . this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences. . . . Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

Beautiful, Devastating, Fiction, Photography, Qualities, Quality
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There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Photography, Truthful, Said, Truth, Photographs, See

I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.

Attract, Design, Giving, Normally, Photography, Receive

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.

Dishonesty, Honesty, Layers, Manipulation, Photography, Tired

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

Support, Political, Agendas, Drawn, Avoids

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions. . . The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.

Foundation, Ideas, Layers, Myths, Overtly, Photography
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