15\01\2013
Written by Joff
REMEMBER FINAL FANTASY
Everyday we see a ton of great photographic series pass by in print and especially online. This abundance of visuals is a great development but it has also made the craft of photography very disposable in many ways, where at moments you can’t help to feel nostalgic about the time when photography felt more like fine art.Then again the Internet provides us with a great archive of fantastic photography that is made now as well as in the past. One of the early series of Dutch photography duo Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin I will never forget. In 1993 they created a work that was called Final Fantasy. It depicted 3-year-old toddlers dressed in leotards photographed behind a glass plate – which created a somewhat artificial pose. Exchanging the mouths of the little girls by a somewhat forced smiling mouth of a male adult created the more unsettling weirdness of the images. It’s strange to realize that the work at that time seems to cross more borders than their photography nowadays.