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The Metropolitan Opera: Romeo and Juliet Set, 2005

Theater

In some ways I feel that photography involves a kind of theater. Photographs take things from the real world and convert them into two-dimensional, make-believe pictures. This transformational process that is embedded in photography itself is what, I think, theater also attempts to achieve visually. At the Metropolitan Opera, I was interested in showing the behind-the-scenes architecture of illusion, which, in its own inventive way, gives audiences that feeling of transportation-of being in a believable world.