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| Information | My status reads "semi-professional" photographer, but my relationship to the medium has always been more artistically motivated than anything else.
l currently teach photo & digital imaging at Governors State University in Chicago, and me and my wife Virginie (who also happened to be a photographer) recently started working on a new creative portraiture photography business called V+B Photo (vnbphoto.com).
So first my teaching career, and then this new commercial perspective have both challenged my "artistic philosophy of photography" in recent years, but mostly in very positive ways I have to admit.
However my love for the medium, or my motivations for doing photography, are unchanged: photography for me is a core narrative, of everything, of mundane life as encountered; it's a fundamental gesture, akin to novel writing or poetry, that helps maintain one's life in touch with a richer, more demanding, more fascinating reality. Every day. Every moment. In every details. It can all be photographed, interpreted, hopefully better interpreted, and better narrated by someone for everyone, the whole infinite presence and present of the world, in small and big lusty photographs.
Images of life, life in images, curiously, eloquently, better narrate our reality to us than reality itself. I'm interested in that, 'cause too often reality turns out to be completely out of grasp, at least for me. We can all use a little bit of help, to talk back to it. To conjure it. Trick it. Deny it or sublimize it. Look back in the tiny window of all yesterdays and decide to unveil its many horrors and beauties, just for the sake of refusing the all-obtuse blindnesses life constantly demands of us. It's a beautiful revenge, think about it. Rewriting it all. But it has to be real. It has to stay true. True to life. It's Photography after all... | |
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