Jorge Pedra, 51 years old, Portugal, living in Porto
THE PATH TO ABSTRACTION – THE GROUND
I believe that, although photography is always somehow based on
reality, every photograph is only partly objective, and is always an
interpretation of that reality.
By adding non photographic techniques to the photographed object –
like painting, manipulation or image “treatment” by computer – one can
approach abstraction.
My intention is to free photography from its traditional “obligation”:
that is, the “closest interpretation” of visible reality. I am
interested in the dissolution of the object – but without totally
losing the perception of the original – and in promoting color and
shape as a means of expression in its own right. Just as if Kandinsky
had used photography.
