LandEscape Art Review November 2014 Special Issue

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Damir Matijević

Land

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In front of a Wall, 2013

Fata Morgana, 2013

or even "encrypted" in the environment we live in, so we need -in a way- to decipher them. Maybe that one of the roles of an artist could be to reveal unexpected connections between Nature and our inner Nature... what's your point about this?

such techniques could lead to a betrayal of reality?

Digital technology presents many options for creative expression to everyone and every man has freedom how he will use it. That is the freedom and the richness of of Art. Where is the limit I do not know, only time will show where digitalization will take us.

That is it, the nature and we are in a deep ,lasting, unbreakable relationship. Wether the man will recognize himself in it, it depends on him. One should know how to "look" and how to "listen", but more importantly is how to "see" and how to "hear".

By the way, manipulation in photography is not new, but digital technology has extended the range of possibilities and the line between straight and manipulated photographs is increasingly blurry. Do you think people’s perceptions of what a photograph is are changing as a result?

Often I give my photographs names, because I try to keep the viewer further engaged and encourage them to think a little deeper and to dive into the photography.

That question I leave to experts, I just take photographs ...

In these last years we have seen a great usage of digital technology, in order to achieve outcomes that was hard to get with traditional techniques: do your think that an excess of

Your photographs often seem to focus on moments of physical or emotional tension

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