Continuing in spirit from the above text, photography is not reality, it is a medium of interpretation, a version of reality and something unto itself (pixels, paper, light projection or whatever specific form the “photography” takes). To be a photographer and know this, that is, not to believe that photography is a mirror of reality but a kind of question in and of itself is perhaps to be a great photographer — it is certainly a main ingredient. Maximilian Koppernock is definitely of the latter sort. His images are so charged with this unstable but compelling tension, that it is often wonderfully difficult to tell if his subject is terrifying or lovely.