Lee Miller's, Dead SS Guard in Canal.
I have alway been really interested in the photography of Lee Miller, since before i even began taking images myself. looking now back at those images, it interesting to see something of myself and my own work in the images she created during World War II.
The work i have been undertaking around the site of the boglands in Ireland (Casting Shadows), specifically the site where my father died, seems to connect in a way with my understanding of the images of Lee Miller. Ideas such a terrible beauty, the distance between the living and the dead, the inability for photography to seperate itself from aesthics and realism and reflect something of the forms of the everyday experience.
Thinking about the truths we assume and the truths we construct in order to better cope with everday life, i believe images suchs as Miller provide an interior reflection of the fallacy of photography and truth. Or even the notion of truth against fiction.
"And if there is art enough, a lie can enlighten as well as the truth"
Iris Murdoch
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