Janina Struk: A Photographer in the Archive
As a professional documentary photographer and writer with a zeal for critical investigation, research informs my photography, and my photography informs my research.
When I began to work as a photographer I didn’t consider myself a researcher, but I was aware that subject knowledge was imperative if I was to make informed choices about the kind of photographs I needed to take to communicate a particular message.
A photograph is a two-dimensional object; a fraction of a second frozen in time and evidence that the moment existed. In that sense a photograph is objective, but it is also subjective, influenced by the intention of the photographer who makes a series of technical, aesthetic and ethical choices ...
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