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Lotus (2009-2011)

This series is made together with photographer Quinten De Bruyn.

See the Lotus book here

In the series Lotus, Max Pinckers and Quinten De Bruyn document the world of transsexuals in Thailand. The gender crisis that the so called ladyboys face is transformed into a visual metaphor directed towards the identity crisis that contemporary documentary photography confronts, when it dares to reflect upon itself in a critical way and expose its internal paradoxes.

The documentary photographer that captures reality as ‘a fly on the wall’ can’t deny his directive and manipulative role any longer. His anonymity, his seeming absence is merely a pose. Finally he is the one with all the power and he chooses over ‘the decisive moment’. The tableaux that he captures are not lies, but enfold themselves within the studio that he creates from reality.

Inkjet prints on Tecco Pearl Gloss Photo Paper, 110 x 95 cm, mounted on dibond and framed. Editions of 7 + 3 AP.

Texts:
Yoyo by Hans Theys, M HKAzine #11, 2012
Introduction for .tiff magazine by Hans Theys, 2012
Our Ladies of the Flowers by Hans Theys, Lotus book, 2011
Documentairefotografie, De Brakke Grond, De diepte in, 2011
Ladyboys als metafoor, DIGIFOTO Pro magazine, 2010

Selected exhibitions:
Between the Lines, CROXHAPOX, Ghent, 2012
A Whitsun Wedding, curated by Hans Theys, Welle, 2012
Menotrentuno_III Young European Photography Festival, Sardinia, 2011
Foto8 Summershow 2011, HOST Gallery, London, 2011
(Re):Tilt, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, 2011
Knokke-Heist Fotofestival, The Green Room, Knokke-Heist, 2011
BREDAPHOTO international photo festival, Breda, 2010