Fotograf Magazine

Photography is the most obvious language for describing reality. What is shown in the photograph is reality, but, as we know from the history of the genre, much depends on the vantage point and intention of the photographer, as well as whom s/he shoots and how.

The Slovak artist Lucia Nimcová explores in her photographs and videos the visual codes of the communist past of her home country – she herself was twelve years old when the Iron Curtain fell. In her trilogy UNOFFICIAL, Leftovers and Double Coding she is researching different approaches to reality.