Philip-Lorca DicorciaStreetwork - 1993-1997

The elements which call into question the normal relationship of appearance to truth in photography are, for most artists of my generation, tools to enrich the experience of the work rather than ends in themselves. If anyone were to tell me that what interests them most about my work is the questioning of the norms of the photography, I would answer that they had missed the point. It is also tiring to continually see the work as having cinematic characteristics which influence the interpretation rather than becoming another element in the compositional array : there is no "plot" - the plot, as such, is generated by the realities at play at the moment, which include subjective states, objective observations, the interpretation of the sociopolitical dynamics at work and the desire to give all these elements unprejudiced freedom from the predispositions that photography naturally creates. Philip-Lorca Dicorcia