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Rafael HeRman: Hello! PRudence faiRweatHeR: Do you see me yet? R: Yes! P: Now I can see you. You look wonderful! R: I am. Why not? P: You have a good life. R: We all have a good life. P: This is the frst time I'm Skyping. I'm like a Skype virgin and it's with you. R: Today, to be a virgin on Skype is unbelievable. P: Well, you know, that's me. Could you tell me about your photographic method? R: It's a good question. I never really think about what others need to know about it. This is my nature of being an adventurer. It has to do with that fact and what brings me to a high concentration. I think I cannot achieve better concentration than the moment I am in 48 | SUMMER 2013 | FAIRWEATHER 'Without light, we do not see the reality, and the light, itself, is what gives us the idea about reality.' Above: Exhibition view of the installation in museum Palazzo Reale Milan, 2007. Previous spread: Selfportrait, Grande Palais, Paris 2011. an unknown situation. This helps me beyond concentration—it takes all of my senses much higher and I'm feeling much more. This is the moment I fnd inspiration in the unknown. The fact that there is no manipulation in my photography at all, it brings the questioning of reality much stronger, because it is showing the reality as it is, but not as we see it. I'm generally working around the research of light. My work is researching light in diferent aspects, so in the night, I'm researching light in the dark and I'm trying to fnd the reality that we cannot see, and for me, light is the reality. Without light, we do not see the reality, and the light, itself, is what gives us the idea about reality. If we change light, we change reality. If now I see you, in this face, and it is full of daylight and the moment it is dark, all of the reality would be diferent. If we change the color of the light, the reality we experience would be totally diferent. If we understand it or interpret the reality by the light, and sometimes in a tacit way, we don't even feel it, it's a natural organic process. P: How did you become interested in photography? I know you were at University studying economics. R: Basically, my education is an artistic education. I started my art