The document tends towards the imaginary, fiction tends towards the real. You could say that if you aim at a form of truth through fiction, then the reality will become enigmatic precisely because it is obvious. Documentary photography offers an interesting possibility of achieving a poetic form. For me that is more than just an interesting possibility, it's what I'm aiming at. If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality. - "Luc Delahaye: Snap Decision," Art Press, 2005
...."photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has it's function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me just a means for photographing, for material, not for telling the truth. In magazines, the images are vulgar, reality is reduced to a symbolic or simplistic function. . . one of the reasons for the photographs' large size is to make them incompatible with the economy of the press." - Luc Delahaye
Luc Delahaye
Another image from "History"
Luc Delahaye
Fighting the Taliban
1996
Luc Delahaye
US Bombing on Taliban Positions
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