Dreams don’t have titles.”
Man Ray
Gallery
images © 2023-2025 Rico Michel
There is no objective truth in photography. The image is never more than a fragment of reality, a truncated, momentary, and incomplete point of view. The image is subjective, and its truth is always multiple, like that of the observer, or unfathomable, like that of the artist.
If there is such a thing as a “photographic truth”, it is to be found in its fundamental elements: light, composition, and optical apparatus.
I have therefore attempted, inspired by the simplified form of the haiku and the mechanical honesty of Man Ray’s rayographs, to imagine an aesthetic that would stem solely from the photographic form itself.
From a cognitive perspective, we decode the form of the image before identifying its content. It is in this space that I situate this series of images; although always figurative, their emotion comes essentially from the play of balance between the masses, the tones, and the out-of-focus areas of which they are composed.
