{"id":171,"date":"2015-07-10T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/?p=171"},"modified":"2015-07-10T12:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:02:31","slug":"sex-death-getting-some-stuff-done-in-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/2015\/07\/10\/sex-death-getting-some-stuff-done-in-between\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, death, getting some stuff done in between"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div   data-size='no scaling'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='fade'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='172,173,174,175,176,177'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='true'  data-bg_slider='false'  data-slide_height=''  data-handle='av_slideshow'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id=''  data-scroll_down=''  data-control_layout=''  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-lazy_loading='disabled'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1  av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-no scaling av_slideshow  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling   avia-fade-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 125.64417177914%;' ><li  class=' slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class=\"avia-caption av-slideshow-caption\"><div class=\"avia-inner-caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >01. Pieter Hugo<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>01.<br \/>\nPieter Hugo, Cape Town, 2004, archival pigment on cotton rag paper, 100 x 80cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img class=\"wp-image-172 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-172\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/01-1.jpg\" width=\"815\" height=\"1024\" title='01-1' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/01-1.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/01-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/01-1-561x705.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/01-1-450x565.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-2 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class=\"avia-caption av-slideshow-caption\"><div class=\"avia-inner-caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >02. Nyameka J Matiayna<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>02.<br \/>\nNyameka J Matiayna, 2005<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img class=\"wp-image-173 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-173\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/02-1.jpg\" width=\"815\" height=\"1024\" title='02-1' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/02-1.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/02-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/02-1-561x705.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/02-1-450x565.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-3 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class=\"avia-caption av-slideshow-caption\"><div class=\"avia-inner-caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >03. Attwell Vuyani Mrubata<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>03.<br \/>\nAttwell Vuyani Mrubata, 2005<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img class=\"wp-image-174 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-174\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/03-1.jpg\" width=\"815\" height=\"1024\" title='03-1' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/03-1.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/03-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/03-1-561x705.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/03-1-450x565.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-4 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class=\"avia-caption av-slideshow-caption\"><div class=\"avia-inner-caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >04. Monwabisi Mtana<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>04.<br \/>\nMonwabisi Mtana, 2005<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img class=\"wp-image-175 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-175\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/04-1.jpg\" width=\"815\" height=\"1024\" title='04-1' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/04-1.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/04-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/04-1-561x705.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/04-1-450x565.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-5 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class=\"avia-caption av-slideshow-caption\"><div class=\"avia-inner-caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >05. Sixolile Bojana<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>05.<br \/>\nSixolile Bojana, 2005<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img class=\"wp-image-176 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-176\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/05-1.jpg\" width=\"815\" height=\"1024\" title='05-1' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/05-1.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/05-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/05-1-561x705.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/05-1-450x565.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/div><\/li><li  class=' slide-6 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class=\"avia-caption av-slideshow-caption\"><div class=\"avia-inner-caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >06. Untitled<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>06.<br \/>\nUntitled, Amsterdam 2008<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img class=\"wp-image-177 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-177\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/06-1.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" title='06-1' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/06-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/06-1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/06-1-705x461.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/06-1-450x294.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><div class='avia-slideshow-arrows avia-slideshow-controls'><a href='#prev' class='prev-slide' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue87c' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'>Previous<\/a><a href='#next' class='next-slide' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue87d' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'>Next<\/a><\/div><div class='avia-slideshow-dots avia-slideshow-controls'><a href='#1' class='goto-slide active' >1<\/a><a href='#2' class='goto-slide ' >2<\/a><a href='#3' class='goto-slide ' >3<\/a><a href='#4' class='goto-slide ' >4<\/a><a href='#5' class='goto-slide ' >5<\/a><a href='#6' class='goto-slide ' >6<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h1  blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Sex, death, getting some stuff done in between<\/h1><div class ='av-subheading av-subheading_below  ' style='font-size:15px;'><p>A prominent young South African photographer talks about control, collecting photography books, Messina\/Musina, gothic music, David Goldblatt and Richard Misrach. Pieter Hugo in conversation with Federica Angelucci.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>You have said that you distrust the portrait since it doesn&#8217;t convey the truth. What, then, is it supposed to convey?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think my comments about distrusting the portrait and the death of photography were made quite boldly and possibly in an inebriated state! But sometimes I look at my work and how people read it, and it has no relationship to what I might have experienced in taking the picture or what I might get from it. There&#8217;s no absolute truth in what a portrait can convey.<\/p>\n<p>I think the way I view photography is closer to poetry than to documentary. This makes me think of filmmaker Werner Herzog who says he is not interested in relaying an accountant&#8217;s truth in his documentaries. It&#8217;s one thing to portray something and to give an inventory of facts, and another to use those facts to your own ends, to achieve something that Herzog defines as an ecstatic truth, an experiential truth.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is something that can be related to portraits. Mostly, I am not particularly interested in conveying the actual truth about a person \u2013 and I would be extremely distrustful if that was someone&#8217;s intention. But a portrait can definitely convey some<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>kind of emotive experience, or ecstatic experience, and some level of identification and catharsis that one experiences in relation to the portrait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am intrigued by your use of the word &#8220;poetry&#8221; and the fact that you feel the portrait is closer to poetry than documentation: it reminds me of the idea of the emotional benefit that the subject gets from the portrait \u2013 just as poetry can provide a refuge in pain or doubt. Do you think you also benefit emotionally from the portrait practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richard Avedon, in his preface to In the American West, said: &#8220;Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is &#8230; the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.&#8221; Taking portraits implies a dynamic, but at the end of the day it is the photographer who has complete control. You choose the edit, the setting, the angle \u2026 and one shouldn&#8217;t lose sight of this.<\/p>\n<p>(continues in the print edition)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapped.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}