Documenting our Landscape

I would not go so far as Dave Lee by arguing that a photograph re-presents the photographer’s truth as an absolute function of the notion of truth. Rather, I would want to argue that the image a photographer chooses to show re-presents nothing more than a construction chosen on one occasion, one from infinite possible constructions, that satisfies some impossible visual desire if only for the moment of printing the initial image. The image, in this sense, says more about the photographer and the choices made than it does about the object being photographed.