© Amy Montali, Martin, Palmer and Nora, 2003
© Amy Montali, Erin in the blue room, 2004
“These portraits and narrative fragments are produced with a large-format view camera, which requires a slow and formal approach. However, I try to shoot spontaneously as though I am on the street or at a birthday party. I like to fuse the seductive power of studio photography with the energy and emotion of a snapshot.
The work is often collaborative and always improvisational. I choreograph scenes of varying complexity in order to explore real and fictitious relationships and to consider such subtexts as rivalry, desire, guilt, and redemption. I use the colors and shapes of my locations to illuminate and intensify, or invent, psychological states. Then, I wait for the picture.
The camera allows me to stare. In some ways content is secondary to my obsession with photography itself. I am particularly interested in how photography seduces its participants, including me, and how its power differs from that of painting, theater, or film.”
Amy Montali
Amy Montali
More of Amy Montali’s work here.
N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 
fragmentos em forma de estados de espirito. Lindo!!!