ROSAMUND FELSEN GALLERY
One can draw, paint, sculpt, or digitally illustrate what doesn't exist, but photo-based practices generally necessitate that someone or something be there to be photographed. To depict unreality--fantasies, fairy tales, religious stories, etc.--the photographic artist must resort to staging, manipulation, editing, or a combination of these. A photograph or film thus can unfold a fiction and simultaneously document the strange reality of acting, ...