Documentary Photography and New Trends

14.07.2011
A discussion with Evgenia Maximova
Start: 14.07.2011 at 19:00
Art Center Photosynthesis

Author statement:
Life is a patchwork, assembled of numerous unique, irregular and often controversial pieces of circumstances and choices. You can arrange what appears to be unpleasant at first glance into a beautiful composition. You can mix up pretty elements to create a piece of knickknack. Or form a completely new shape out of incompatible patterns. The end product depends on one's vision, constructiveness and virtuosity.

It is very important for me to make this essential characteristic of life visible in what I am doing.

I see my objective in storytelling. My aim is to communicate socio-political models and tendencies and examine their consequences for society and culture. Although my work is far from fiction and is based on existing phenomena, I prefer to stay distant form the pure documentary approach. This allows me to go beyond the plain act of collecting facts and evidences, and freely explore the human being's nature of self-perception and self-identification.