Lotus (signed)

by Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn


Photographs: Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn

Text: Hans Theys

Publisher: Lyre Press

152 pages

Pictures: 262 (color)

Year: 2016

ISBN: 9789082465518

Price: 55

Comments: Hardcover, first edition of 3000, 20,3 x 27,6 cm

In the series Lotus, Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn document the world of transsexuals in Thailand. The gender crisis that the so-called ladyboys face is transformed into a visual metaphor about the identity crisis that contemporary documentary photography currently encounters, when it dares to reflect upon itself critically, and confront its paradoxes. The documentary photographer that captures reality as ‘a fly on the wall’ can’t deny his or her directive and manipulative role any longer. The anonymity, the seeming absence, is merely a pose. The tableaux that the photographer captures are not lies, but enfold themselves within the studio that he or she creates from reality.


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Lotus (signed)

by Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn


Photographs: Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn

Text: Hans Theys

Publisher: Lyre Press

152 pages

Pictures: 262 (color)

Year: 2016

ISBN: 9789082465518

Price: 55

Comments: Hardcover, first edition of 3000, 20,3 x 27,6 cm

In the series Lotus, Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn document the world of transsexuals in Thailand. The gender crisis that the so-called ladyboys face is transformed into a visual metaphor about the identity crisis that contemporary documentary photography currently encounters, when it dares to reflect upon itself critically, and confront its paradoxes. The documentary photographer that captures reality as ‘a fly on the wall’ can’t deny his or her directive and manipulative role any longer. The anonymity, the seeming absence, is merely a pose. The tableaux that the photographer captures are not lies, but enfold themselves within the studio that he or she creates from reality.


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Lotus (signed)

by Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn


Photographs: Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn

Text: Hans Theys

Publisher: Lyre Press

152 pages

Pictures: 262 (color)

Year: 2016

ISBN: 9789082465518

Price: 55

Comments: Hardcover, first edition of 3000, 20,3 x 27,6 cm

In the series Lotus, Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn document the world of transsexuals in Thailand. The gender crisis that the so-called ladyboys face is transformed into a visual metaphor about the identity crisis that contemporary documentary photography currently encounters, when it dares to reflect upon itself critically, and confront its paradoxes. The documentary photographer that captures reality as ‘a fly on the wall’ can’t deny his or her directive and manipulative role any longer. The anonymity, the seeming absence, is merely a pose. The tableaux that the photographer captures are not lies, but enfold themselves within the studio that he or she creates from reality.


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