My background is in still photography. They always say that directors have one other department that they really obsess about, and for a lot of filmmakers it's apparently production design, but for me it's definitely photography. The joy of coming into this film [
Vivir (2022)] from South Africa, not being English, was that I was able to approach it with a certain freedom as an outsider that was not too bogged down by my own historical understanding of a lived experience of the UK. I was able to pour over images of photographers who I love and whose work I had seen, a lot of them Americans who had gone to England in the early 50s. [Dec. 2022]
