Fine Art Photography
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Photography as personal projects is my passion. I make different types of pictures. Some are “pure” photographs straight from the camera (like the two pictures in the diptych above), and others (below) are made of several layers and details from different photographs. I experiment with different techniques and styles because I like to explore and create. I don’t think any photographs are “objective”, they will always carry subjective choices and perspectives, they are subjective cuts of realities. When I put together different photographs or parts of them, I compose, in part or in whole, new imaginary realities. It’s said that photographing is painting with light, and yes it is, but is it then a painting? When I work on composing new images in the digital darkroom, building the layers, sometimes the boundaries between photography and painting become blurred (even if I seldom use digital paintbrushes). A philosophical question may be whether an image made from multiple photographs and pieces of photographs can become anything other than a photograph, a painting? I was once asked why I didn’t paint my pictures instead (by hand with oil painting) – but no, I can’t. Not like these ones. They fit more into the category photo-collages – but categories are just boxes, and rules and boundaries can be challenged.
Below are some examples of my multilayered photographies or creative photo collages. I follow my own rule of using only my own photographs (or parts from them) in my pictures. In each picture there is more than one story – there are stories about the different photographs I have used, and about the final picture which is open for multiple readings.
Karin Fajersson 