light drawings home

Recent works, such as caffe bar Flash Art, pale sensation and the gardens of ali pasa polje are reworkings of photographs I took in Bosnia-Herzogonia in the 1990s. I have digitally re-worked the photographs to appear like drawings, a reference to the word ‘photography’ meaning ‘light drawing’.

The process also includes erasing certain parts of the image. In ‘editing’ these once ‘documentary’ photographs I choose, like the photo editor of a newspaper or magazine, to highlight or remove certain information. But in these works the manipulation becomes evident to the viewer who is forced to distinguish between the subjective hand of the drawer and the objective eye of the photographer.

The resulting works defy categorization as either documentary or aesthetic, photograph or drawing; but seek to provoke a discussion on the categories themselves.