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View at Padjelanta national Park, Sweden (made from 9 photographs)
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| I´ve
always been fascinated by moving or, rather, variable images. When
I was young I was enthralled by Cinemascope. In fact, the movements
of my own head and eyes across the screen became a film within the
film.
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| While
I was still in my teens, I abandoned the idea of film as a mode of
expression. The technology available at that time made it much too
expensive to achieve what I wanted. If only the modern video camera
had existed then!
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| What
I try to do in my pictures is to maintain a relationship with actual
reality, I´v never been one for pulling an image apart into
small pieces or distorting what the camera has recorded. I do, however,
use the computer as a normal part of my creative work.
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| I
believe in the power of images that sound a chord of recognition and
have an interrelated content. Without that, my wide images would easily
become fragmentised, and I´d lose the exciting film camera-like
movement across the surface of the image. I don´t mind colleagues,
but they should at least let the individual image record things that
are physically connected!
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| In
a sense, I´m contradicting myself. After all, a digital image
is precisely that - a collage - a gigantic mosaic of ones and zeros.
And modern computer technology makes it very tempting to juggle the
pieces. But I don´t think that we humans can broadcast our creative
seeds as well as Mother Nature.
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| Bengt Hedberg
:-)
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