Andrea Botto is a photographer, specialising in creating narratives that explore traces, the passing of time and photographic thresholds. His work investigates perception and how there can be many truths exposed within an image or series. His project 19.06_26.08.1945 does exactly this, as the images accompany text in order to tell, what appears to be a factual story created in memory of the return journey from the nazi prisoner-of-war camps, made by his grandfather. The images however, are actually found images from the internet that have been presented in order to tell a believable story. The ownable elements appear in the text and in turn the photographs become the captions that validate the story being told.
https://www.andreabotto.it/en/statement/
As Botto expresses in his own statement:
“I don’t believe that the image holds the One and Only Truth, and I am in fact very interested in those situations where reality and appearence are intertwined. For me a picture is, first of all, a stage of reality, a metaphor, a representation of the world that gets power from its natural ambiguity.”
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