#WAR is a fake. It is a recreated scenario, a staging, where the artist is always present. It is a criticism of the media, with its lack of truthfulness in its transmitted communication. Photography, theatricality and
digital processing come together.
We are replete with images, which we use to disseminate our opinions, ideas and visions of the world.
By inserting herself into the image, the artist modifies, but at the same time recreates, a truthful, but not real, scenario. Inaccessible places here become accessible.
In conflict photojournalism, one touches the boundary between reality and representation and, more generally, between the editorial and artistic product. This frontier can seem to be very flimsy indeed, in a society where terror, suffering and death are constantly news. We are heading towards the “dramatization of pain” where what matters most is what creates news,what makes an impact on the public, what upsets them and captures their attention.
The reality described exceeds reality itself, emphasizing the negative aspects of society, its paradoxes, and its cruelties, favouring the birth of distorted documents or actual photomontages. And ... the public believes it.