Pedro Meyer is a Documentary photographer who has changed from his so-called straight photography to a digital-documentarian who tests the limits of truth, fiction and reality. He is a good example of a photographer who has taken advantage of the digital transformation and has produced many believable manipulated images. One of his most recent pieces of work entitled ‘Truth and Fictions’ is an enchanting photographic exploration of Mexico and the United States. His aim was to give his audience an insight to human nature and the nature of perception using a combination of documentary photography and computer imaging. The temptation of the angel is one of the images that is a color digital print taken at Magdalena Jaltepec Oaxaca, it combines an image of a young girl dressed as a Christian angel looking away as the apparition of a curandera approaches across a chessboard. The curandera is a native healer that uses folk remedies and the image is basically asking whether the girl really believes in this religion or whether it is superficial. Meyer is using this collaboration to reveal more human feelings and to create more questionable imagery, which catches the eye of his viewer’s causing them to think more emotionally about the meaning caused by his distortions. In my own opinion I feel that Meyer’s images can either extract the truth from his documentary work making it less believable or in other circumstances increase it so it becomes more powerful with its message, either way his images had the ability to cause mixed identities and puzzle his viewers.
"I think it's very important for people to realize that images are not a representation of reality," Pedro Meyer says. "The sooner that myth is destroyed and buried, the better for society all around."
No comments:
Post a Comment