I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.
Joan FontcubertaPhotography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.
Joan FontcubertaEvery photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else.
Joan FontcubertaPhotography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.
Joan Fontcuberta