In my early work I pretended to speak about my childhood, yet my real childhood had disappeared. I have lied about it so often that I no longer have a real memory of this time, and my childhood has become, for me, some kind of universal childhood, not a real one. Everything you do is a pretence. My life is about making stories, I travel a lot; I am like some kind of travelling circus clown.
Christian Boltanski
in conversation with Tamar Garb.
Christian Boltanski. Didier Semin, Tamar Garb, Donald Knight. Phaidon Press. London. 1997. p.8
Photography is concerned with death and always the past. It records our past so that we might contextualise and understand our present. This documentation, the selection and recording of evidence, evidence of past shadows, histories, facts, locations, explanations, faces, fictions and most importantly, that which isn't shown. The hidden may be revealed by it's absence.
An abstract from my notebook. 1998
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