Cuts and Folds

In this series, I explore ideas around alteration, manipulation, distortion, multiples, and variation. In every step of developing this set, I alter what is in front of me by just one degree - trying to be as subtle as possible. I work with photographs of landscape printed on archival paper for this set - images that are from different sites, most often ‘buffer zones’ that I have traveled to. 

This set of works focuses on three aspects - documentary photography and politics of the photographic image, ‘poor’ images and how they are perceived, and the meaning that calculated cuts and folds hold. By using the cut as an act, and considering the violence that comes with it, I calculatedly curate these marks on the images, altering the image by just one degree. 

Where is the cut in actuality, is it on the paper, the landscape, or the image? 

These works aim to alter our perception towards photography, images, and representations -  pointing out our relation and interaction with both land and landscape. It also points towards violence, and the control we seek in and around our day to day life in respect to aesthetics and beauty.