Masha babko video on instagram8/3/2023 I was rather stunned into disappointment when that first still life of mine looked like a pile of flaming crap (I deleted the pictures in a stroppy rage). I didn’t appreciate how little I knew about this craft. I have an obsessive nature, so naturally I obsessed. I have also mused on two things with regard to the non-fiction nature of this type of photography: Over a long spring and summer during which I googled the fuck out of ‘how to take/create/edit painterly still life photographs’, and pushed myself to create as much as a working mum can, I got to a place of amateur understanding with the genre. The first is that some types of photography will never neatly fit into the binary categories of fiction and non-fiction, just as creative non-fiction plays that same game. Whether a single photograph can ever be a true act of nonfiction, I don’t have the time or space to explore here. But most still life photography straddles a magical boundary in which very real and tangible objects are so purposefully crafted into scenes that are almost a slice of life.
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