004 · Withholding
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Jean Mohr admits to fictionalising his experiences in the act of recounting them: ‘I’m making this up, or rather imagining it.’1
A self-conscious honesty.
An admission that events alter in the retelling.
Having worked with John Berger across several books, Mohr describes Berger’s tendency to withhold certain photographs from the reader. It was left to the reader to see the ‘characters in the imagination and shape them accordingly’.2
A resistance to the easy use of images to complete the text.
To withhold visual information for the sake of imagination.