ABOUT THE SERIES

To me, photography is a mirage. For although it is an emanation of reality, photography is at the same time consubstantial with my fantasy. Thus, the camera becomes a dream factory, and these photographs narrate an intimate diary of my "departures" without leaving my backyard. They demonstrate photography's power to “transport” us. In other words: “I don't travel to photograph. I photograph to travel.”As I photograph the everyday reality that surrounds my studio, I also photograph, or even project, my longings. Images capture moments when reality and my subconscious world collide. I travel with the help of images accumulated in my memory and imagination. When I look through the viewfinder, I am teleported to distant places that I long to visit, and I become completely oblivious of the fact that I'm still standing in front of my studio door.The “truth” - and also the truth conveyed by photography is always conditioned with cultural conventions. In the making of this series, I used two cultural constructs. The first is that photography is a piece of reality captured by light, and the second is how we are used to seeing nature. By adding names of real places to the photographs, the illusion that what we see are in fact distant places, becomes credible.In this way, Memories of Tomorrow asks the question if we are visually literate in an era when images make up the bulk of our communication. It is a reminder of how easily we can be manipulated through them. I will not waste my breath about the fact that we are destroying the planet, and that tomorrow many places can easily become just a memory. The Memories of Tomorrow series is an introductory part of a deeper inward journey that is expressed in the body of work entitled Scotoma.