Max Pinckers & Quinten De Bruyn - Lotus

Lyre Press 2016

"‘What is documentary?’ he seems to be asking. ‘And what is staged by me? What is performed by the subjects in frame, consciously or not? How much does our behaviour in front of a camera lens stem from the visual culture that surrounds us?’ These questions help us to understand Lotus as part of an ongoing enquiry, one questioning the roles that the photograph, photographer and subject play when a defining – even decisive – moment is singled out from the many. They serve to remind us that the making of the image is integral to the understanding of the image – that even if we taste the lotus and lose the desire to find our way home, we can still smote the grey sea with our oars." – Tom Seymour, Book Review, British Journal of Photography, July 2017

Hardcover, 195 x 270 mm, 152 pages
Edition of 3000
Printed by Die Keure, Bruges
ISBN 9789082465518