Photographer's Darkroom
THE BEAUTIFUL MELANCHOLY OF ANGEL
I am going to tell you a secret about art. I am going to give you an insight that you may have already, but do not recognize. If you want to know what it is you innately know but have not defined then you should read on. I think that one of the most difficult things for an artist to accomplish is to affect the viewer with a sense of his own emotion at the time of creation, when they look at a work. In some forms of art this is much easier to accomplish, such as theatre, and music, but in the pictorial arts it can be difficult to achieve. In photography it can be possible to capture a moment, and stop time. That is to halt an instance of time so that, that moment of light being shared with the eye, and that emotional effect being shared with the brain of the photographer is later shared with the viewer. Angel Colunge is an artist who has mastered the camera, and who can bring you into his mind-set with his work. You the viewer become a participant in the images and not just a voyeur.
“I do not believe in the truth. I believe in the interpretation of words, of gestures, of actions, of documents, and of photographs. Everything changes and everything has an end, especially the moments that pass by, the time that is lost while you read this line. There is no way back. This is the way I take pictures; thinking about what is leaving and will never come back. This is the reason why I am not a documentary photographer, and if I do document anything, it would be my own feelings, which would have been awakened by events, which randomly crossed my way. I do not look for anything concrete; I just run around and steal images of what will never be again."