Joan Fontcuberta Quotes

#1. Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of hierarchy that demonizes some options over others, demonizes them in respect to, what - ideology or moral code?

Joan Fontcuberta

#2. There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.

Joan Fontcuberta

#3. The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

Joan Fontcuberta

#4. Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else.

Joan Fontcuberta

#5. The world begins with every kiss.

Joan Fontcuberta

#6. I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

Joan Fontcuberta

#7. I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

Joan Fontcuberta

#8. Photography ... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

Joan Fontcuberta

#9. Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.

Joan Fontcuberta