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Dina Bova Quotes

born 1977 Israel

Israel
Artists
Computer scientists

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I believe, a fictional work may carry sometimes more truth than documentary work.

My artworks are far from classic photography and remind paintings of Renaissance period and at the same time neo-surrealism.

I also liked to watch how, under the street lighting, people’s faces could take a strange and sometimes even sinister expressions.

I remember that I liked to capture moments from the lives of people and the amazing beauty of nature.

I am mainly an autodidact and have not received a systematic education in the field of photography.

I found myself thinking that I would like to transfer the people I meet on the streets to another time or space.

I think, that such things as classification and definition of style.

Truthful fiction is the basis of my creative style.

In my early photographs I tried to seize the moments and documenting the surrounding world.

I’m creating my own world of subjective reality with my camera and computer.

I use allegories as a way to express my understanding of the modern world.

I started from classic photography during my travels around the world.

I won many prizes in the field of photography, but nevertheless I am not a photographer in its usual sense.

My artworks don’t reflect the reality as we know it, yet convey a deep and true message.

As best said in the famous phrase "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures".

I would like to emphasize that I am not a pure photographer.

I think that is what led me to what I am doing today.

I have always been attracted to images where I saw some kind of secret, strangeness or hidden drama.

When it was cold and foggy, I liked to watch a beckoning light from the windows of strangers’ houses.

I said that I turned my camera from the outside world to the inside world and these words still seem to reflect most accurately.

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