ファビアン・ファメル

Fabian Hammerl

The moment you press the shutter button is the moment that the moment you wish to capture has already passed. A photograph is a means of transportation for a past presence into the presence, where, bared of its original context, the image serves to re-invent a contemporary version of the past. 
There is a melancholy inherent to the photographic image, acting in concert with the joy of recollecting past and attaching new emotions to it, very much like putting an old record on the player: The song hasn’t changed, but we have; sentimentality arises, but also fresh layers of perception superimposing and altering the original experience. 
“(And) Speak of me in the Present Tense.“ is a semi-fictitious photographic narrative dealing with questions of fugacity and perpetuation and the role photography plays in the constitution of memory. The series conflates images from different years and countries, transient encounters with people and places, gestures and glimpses, into an auto-fictional diary.