“Neverland” is a location invented by author Author J.M. Barry for his drama play and novels and famously known as the home of Peter Pan. Neverland and its inhabitants are often seen as metaphors for escapism, immortality and refusal to grow up.
This project visualizes rejecting the notion of a photograph or a photographer being able to capture “the truth”; despite total objectivity on our side. Not only could a photographers presence influence the resulting pictures but by always being forced to chose and crop, the truth cannot be told in its entirety, solely through images. Audio and audiovisuals may be superior tools for objectively documenting while photos alone leave something to the imagination.
These photos will hopefully make you question what is staged or otherwise manipulated and what coincidentally really just happened.
Shot on 120 film with Hasselblad 500CM. (Though the project was started in 2014, all images submitted were taken after Jan 1, 2015).
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