Its a completely personal opinion that I dont expect everyone to accept. But the more colored specimens multiply around us the more I feel the charm and attraction of an art expressed through shadow. I also see that your photos a are what we call direct recording photos that is they have no additional interventions. Is this a conscious view In the Circle we are constantly trying to identify the limits which we will never reach of the photographic language. This does not mean that if one uses photography to create a visual work one cannot do so with great success. But in order for photography to escape its limits it is necessary to know them. For me the limits of photography are defined by recording. The treachery of recording begins again with recording.
When we say recording we mean what a camera can do with a lens. Otherwise I see no reason to use it. The end result will of course not be the recording. Extrapolating from your words Im to assume that this is how you dismiss conceptual art as well Whether a photograph falls under photo background removing what we call broadly conceptual or conceptual art is a very big issue because it presupposes the interpretation of what we mean by conceptual art. If by this word we mean that there is an idea about photography as a medium then every photograph is conceptual. Every photographer when creating a photo tries at the same time to give his opinion about Photography with a capital.
If by the word conceptual we mean the illustration of a concept without going beyond the limits of the illustration then I am against it. Because an illustration without another element can never be considered art. In the illustration of all the concepts I have seen the photographic form and content remain divided almost coincidentally present while one should spring from the other and lead to an indivisible whole. From this I can conclude that you also exclude the message inside a photo if it wants to be part of the artistic photos. I rule out the message in any form of art considering it a very poor offering for art to be spent advertising some idea outside of it. The art itself is for me the message.
