Sunday 5 December 2010

Antoine D'Gata


-Employed with Magnum Photo Agency

-Studied at the ‘International Centre of Photography’ alongside Nan Goldin and Lenny Clark

-“I don’t see art as a competition or a spectacle but as a privileged space to give radical form to ones perspective on the world”

-Intelligence not cynicism

-“I look at art when it is shouted or vomited not conceptualised or marketed”

-“Intelligence and beauty do not compensate for passivity”

-“What Nan Goldin has taught me is to stand up, against all odds in a political and existential struggle for survival”

-“I try to express in the most precise and arbitrary way, the indefinable and unbearable beauty of keeping alive, physically , mentally and emotionally”

-“Step away from traditional documentary photography methods which I find are very frustrating and hypocritical/ There is a part of cowardice in the usual position of documentary photography in-between voyeurism and safety/ This is where exploitation lies.








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