Dynamics of Desire  by Del La Grace Volcano (an excerpt)

“Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement…”

Gilles Deleuze As a photographer who deals in seduction and exchange I have been wondering why it is that people allow themselves to be photographed by me in what you could call comprising positions. Although I usually pay travel expenses, give them prints and occasionally a bit of money, if I am being paid, the incentive to ‘pose, perform or model’ for me isn’t financial. I ask them to submit to my fantasies and to confess their own to me. At times they may be in great physical discomfort and occasionally at risk, from the law or the less than law abiding, who wish to censor their display. Is it any more than narcissistic pleasure? Or an overwhelming desire to speak sex and hear it spoken?”

In this piece I want to examine what I call the ‘photographic moments’ in terms of some of the processes involved. Those seldom seen and rarely talked about moments that exist before the images is created and after the images is ‘consumed’ by the spectator….

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