Virtual Exhibits: Wrong pics

Despite the exhibit's title, I didn't pick up my worst photos from the wastebin: these pics are the outcome of a long work of selecting, re-thinking and editing quite good photos, with the aim of enhancing a meaning the subject could inspire, by extreme manipulations of their features. Thus, the "error" is helpful in giving the picture of Las Vegas a sense of triviality through the exaggerate saturation, or in making a lonely place more desolate by stressing grain and muting colors. Or even in making a portrait "pixelated" by enlarging it from a full body pic, obtaining a photo that challenges the extreme cleaniless of fashion photography.

An outstanding photography scholar, Clement Cheroux, wrote a book titled "Fautographie" (from the french "faute", error, pronounced "phot(e)"), that tells how photographic "error" has been consciously used as a technique for proposing innovative and provocative aesthetics. I tried to show here how meaningful messages can result from this practice.