Leonel’s work was something very different then what I was used to. His images are very highly manipulated and constructed. This is something that I am torn about. I use photography as something to capture unseen, or looked over moments. Leonel uses it as means to build a situation, or recreate an historical image. He is falsifying an art form that is meant to tell the truth. By doing this he is making people question what they are looking at. The same person cannot physically be in the same photo seven times. The audience then is aware that this is a manipulated image and not something that really happened. This then opens many doors for people to question what is going on in the photography world. How is one to know if the image they are looking at is a truth or not? This then puts a spot light on all other photographers who take amazing and accurate photos, and they are left defending their work.
Although I do not agree with what Leonel is doing as an artist, I do have respect for his technical abilities. He has a pioneer in the digital era. Today people work with twenty mega pixel cameras and up. He said how when he started how he was working with mega pixels in the single digits. To create a perfectly stitched image as large as they were must have taken a great deal of time and effort.
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