“The portrait- photograph is a closed field of forces. Four image-repertoires intersect

here, oppose and distort each other. In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the

one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I

am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit in his art. In other words, a strange action:

I do not stop imitating myself, and because of this, each time I am (or let myself

be) photographed, I invariably suffer from a sensation of inauthenticity, sometimes

of imposture (comparable to certain nightmares). In terms of image-repertoire, the

Photograph (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell

the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming

an object: I then experience a micro-version of death (of parenthesis): I am truly

becoming a specter.”

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (1980)

Documenting life, photographing strangers and

people of my immediate world was a way to

explore the effects of the camera as an instrument.

In the presence of the camera other kinds of

relationships come to end. Not much of what is

captured is real and if it is, it is controlled by other

factors.

In these photography representations my

intentions were to find answers, to use the camera

and photography as a tool to scrutinise people’s

behaviour in the presence of the camera, whether

it is possible to reflect an intimate relationship

in an image, or the other way round. From

the moment that camera comes between the

photographer and the subject the relationship

changes, the roles differ, the camera becomes an

invisible wall.

Stephanie Soteriou

BA (Hons) Fine Arts

Level 3

University of the West of England, 2011

Untitled, 2010

Untitled, 2010

Untitled, 2010

Untitled, 2010

Kristia, 2011

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Kristia, 2011Demetra, 2011Sabina, 2011

Peter, 2011

Peter, 2011

Stephanie SoteriouUWE

2010- 2011