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Steve Barnard

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You accomplish the difficult task of
controlling the experience of place
and in your artist's statement you have
quoted Joan Fontcuberta who once
stated that, "Every photograph is a
fiction with pretensions to truth".
Artists are always interested in
probing to see what is beneath the
surface: maybe one of the roles of an
artist could be to reveal unexpected
sides of Nature, especially of our inner
Nature... what's your view about this?

Thats true, I don’t think that Im making
photographs, Im sharing ideas to
everyone who happens to see my work,
thats the beauty of the whole process,
its not what you see in the picture its
the symbolism that lies beneath the
elements depicted in the image.
So, its kind of a visual storytelling in
which many objects unite and carry a
certain meaning throughout the
picture.
When developing a multilayered
language, you capture non-sharpness
and bring to a new level of
significance the elusive still
ubiquitous rela tionship between
experience and memory. What is the
role of memory in your process?

I think that memory is part of a learning
process in which information comes
from the outside world and helps you
take decisions that allow you to be part
of your own essence, so, just by saying
this I think that all of us make decisions
based on past experiences.
Now, Im aware that my own memory
and experience affect directly the way I

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