1:1
2014
Giclée prints on Baryta paper
each 30x45cm

I photograph what I touch with my hands. I stroke the subjects of my portraits, each reacts differently, I am in the frame with them; we are in contact.
I mix my photography with my studies on relational psychoanalysis,
reproducing the elements of a clinical setting with performative actions in photography. It is an experimental situation, unusual, given that touching a person’s face is generally the prerogative of an intimate relationship.
My hand appears in the frame, extended towards the subject. The symbolic wall created by the presence of the camera is crossed, making the barrier that separates standing behind or in front of the camera permeable. The photographer, who generally stands behind that barrier, in this case puts a part of himself into the framed shot, becoming part of the composition. This technique explicitly expresses the idea that an “objective” representation of a person is impossible because of the fact that each of us is perpetually interacting with the context that is continually in the “here and now.”

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