“We therefore consume images fleetingly and randomly. It takes very special pictures to grasp and hold our attention. We need to be seduced by images that outdo reality through excessiveness—as in advertising and movies” (Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler). What do you think about this quote? How do you think that our lives are changing as the speed of our interaction with photographic images grows?

I think that at this point in time that to catch peoples attention we need to produce photographs that are excessive and over the top. However for photographs that are there for us to appreciate and enjoy we make photographs that are expressive and reflect the artist ambition. We then are able to appreciate the photographs for a lifetime not a moment.

“But the term ‘Infotainment’ also implies this: with the gradual fictionalization of even the news, the old categorical oppositions of ‘documenting’ and ‘staging’, appearance and reality gradually dissolve. They are being replaced by a variety of hybrid forms for which it will be impossible, in fact pointless, to attempt to distinguish between fact and fiction. Even the accusation that ‘Infotainment’ is guilty of continuous ‘lying’ is therefore unjustified, for it is neither ‘true’ nor ‘false’. Like advertising, movies and all other genres that adhere to the laws of fiction, it works at a level beyond these oppositions—the level of ‘hyper-reality’, where reality is ‘simulated’.” (Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler). What are your thoughts on “Infotainment” and how it affects our lives? How does it affect the way we see and understand “reality”? How does it affect photography in general?

I think that infotainment is a interesting topic. With information updated at every last second, we live in a world where reality is stranger than fiction. Every last detail is reported and available for people to hear and interpret, infotainment is a real part of our lives. I think it affects my photography in a way that is related to the way that my generation thinks. We live in a world of facebook and twitter. Where we know everything about what is going on in the world and what is going on with all our friends.