Tomasz Fall

"The placebo documentary is a personal concept which takes its name from the medical jargon. It's supposed to provide the viewer the same artistic experience that classic and contemporary documentary but without the use of harmful agents. Its research is mainly centered on the photographic representation of the real. It has its origins in the issues raised by the French realist painting and identifies itself ideologically with documentary photography. It nevertheless differs from the latter favoring a more allegorical approach to social facts, minimizing the importance of a particular phenomenon to focus on a broader and transhistorical reading of topics. The placebo documentary advocates the total staged photography, enlightened that all visual production comes from an artificial construction. It takes shapes in aesthetically independent photographic paintings (tableaux) of large format. Thereby, it distances itself from the overproduction of memory-images, deliberately abandoning the contemporary dynamics of serial work. It's firmly positioned against a part of contemporary photography (and art) made for the viewer, thought to seduce him and who forgets the art's prerogatives."

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