Ice

Antoine d'Agata

‘The actions of life alone will be communicated and these will be poetry, because, I say it again, there is no other poetry than true action.’ Pier Paolo Pasolini

I never photograph if I’m not a full participant in the situation I am interfering in or provoking. I gradually abandoned the position behind the camera to integrate myself in the images, as one of the characters of the situations I depict. The process was brutal. Distancing myself from straightforward documentary photography, I document what I live and I live the situations I document. By transgressing the border that separates the photographer from the subject, I become the object of my photography, and unavoidably an actor in my own premeditated scenario. The desire and the pain of the sexual act throw me back upon my own body. In my body I confront the disorder of the world, its violence and humiliation. Not to open my eyes to this excess and horror, but to let it infect me, for better or worse. Antoine d’Agata