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melissa watt
photography
about
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. - Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1971
I try to show the ephemeral aspects of our world. Photographs have a special way of communicating the fleeting nature of beauty, time and reality.
With photography, there is an inherent will to believe in the ‘truth’ of the photograph, making it a perfect medium for magical realism.
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