I consider “Becoming an image” an act of transformation.
I become something that is not myself, it is an idea of myself. I become a conceptual object.
I accompany these image with words so to narrow your reading in support of my messages.
The PhotoPerformer is an atlhete of the image
The PhotoPerformer manifests him/herself through the symbolic pose of exchange
The PhotoPerformer is an anthropologist which is documenting his/her own life as a case study for the others
The PhotoPerformer is constantly carrying out the weight of his/her responsibility to communicate with and for the others
The PhotoPerformer is caged by the limits of the photographic medium
The PhotoPerformer made of photography his/her own religion
The PhotoPerformer exists through the gaze of the others
The PhotoPerformer is transgressing photographic rules
The PhotoPerformer is a creature among creatures
The PhotoPerformer is not alone!
The PhotoPerformer is aware of his/her ability to affect social memory
The PhotoPerformer aims to create a new mythology of photography
The PhotoPerformer is trapped into the power of the medium
The PhotoPerformer believes in photography as a tool of connection and exchange
The PhotoPerformer is a hunter of future memories
The PhotoPerformer believes in photography as the art of touching
The PhotoPerformer is considering photography as a game of authority
The PhotoPerformer is preoccupied by the paralysis of life through the image
The PhotoPerformer is fighting the distance that photography is creating
The PhotoPerformer is testing his/her sexuality through the lens
The PhotoPerformer encourages poetic madness as a creative tool of expression
The PhotoPerformer lives behind a thin layer of glass
“Becoming an Image is a ‘topos’: it testifies to an age-old urge to transcend the boundaries of space and time that confine the human body.”
(The PhotoPerformer 2016)