"Photography is a balance between darkness and light." | Astrid Kruse Jensen | Louisiana Channel

[@axismundi8]

So insightful and inspiring. What a joy to discover this special artist. Thank you.

[@strive340]

An artist who brings out the joy,the risks, uncertainties and beauty to be discovered in photography. Loved it. Thank you.

[@Wilsnap]

Thanks a lot for the work on this project. Jensen really allowed us to see an extremely intimate window into her life. Wonderful editing and direction as usual.

[@ulhasarolkar]

Beautiful... heart touching...

[@jamesregan9942]

Wonderful and heartfelt story. Incredibly courageous person.

[@emptymycup]

Thank you for this beautiful depiction of a lifetime artistic and mutually human process. It seems exemplary in its uniqueness and at the same time in its universality.

[@Maros_Mari]

Wow. So powerful and inspirational, thank you for sharing.

[@margietalk]

thank you for this video. thank you to ms. jensen for very intimate sharing of herself with us. i wish i could talk to her for about a week straight. her work is gorgeous.

[@user-jp1bc6dz8f]

SO BEAUTIFUL!

[@tonyparatore888]

Great therapy...

[@tonyparatore888]

@@mamumonkan I don't know... Every one of us has a personal way of dealing with pain and loss and other emotions, be they positive or negative emotions... And I believe photography is wonderful in helping us deal with our own emotions and maybe make us feel better in the process... It's a deeply personal thing... I see it as a positive thing... Photography as therapy... Everyone has his own little way of working with photography to feel better... I only hope it is a positive way.

[@rogerhyland8283]

Sally Mann likes the wet plate process for similar reasons, a sense of timelessness and a limited ability to control the results.

[@suchithosecan7564]

❤

[@fellfromspace]

"I find photography fascinating because it's so dependent on reality"... how ironic that someone would articulate that thought in a video released the same week the internet is being flooded with reactions to the new (and frankly disorienting) AI-powered features in the latest beta of Adobe's Photoshop. At best, the notion that photography is dependent on reality has only ever sort of been true. It's certainly not true any longer. It seems a strangely outdated assertion with which to begin the interview.

[@tchouros]

A really strange idea is that what Photoshop produces can be called a 'photograph'. The flood of images makes us forget the meaning and weight of words, but its discourse makes sense if we consider photography today as an invitation to contemplate reality rather than to manipulate it...

[@fellfromspace]

@@tchouros Editing is fundamental to photography. Always has been. Lens selection, aperture, darkroom... computer. The supposed indexical relationship between reality and the medium of photography has always been a lie we tell ourselves. While I agree that it would certainly be comforting to reframe photography as an invitation to contemplate reality, doing so because of anything supposedly fundamental to the medium would ironically mean ignoring reality.

[@tchouros]

@@fellfromspace Of course, I understand that photography itself does not '(re)create' reality, and that the notion of truth emanating from an image is a delicate one... However, it seems to me that the medium's fairly recent autonomy within the arts forces us to make choices; in the sense that an a posteriori construction is no longer a fantasy that forms part of a research project (e.g. 'surrealist') but a photographic production that stands on its own. The discourse that accompanies an image has always been as important as its montage; for photography, we could perhaps consider the discourse as a tool... In other words, we dose our words like we dose the cursor in Photoshop, just as a painter would choose to put a touch of acrylic in the middle of his oil painting to access its colour... It's a matter of choices and putting boundaries to our tools

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