Belgian photographer Max Pinckers in his documentary project “Margins Of Excess” presents a series of photographs in which the truth does not always correspond to reality. The work tells the lives of six individuals who became famous and known to the American press, for various disconcerting circumstances.

Among the characters, we find Rachel Dolezal, who pretended to be an African-American woman to take advantage of economic benefits and Herman Rosenblat who invented having survived the Holocaust, with a touching love affair with a girl met on opposite sides of the enclosure of the concentration camp.

What the protagonists of the book Pinckers share are an undeniable talent for the art of deception and a passion for the subversion of the “truth”. Pinckers has been fascinated by these characters, making them the favorite subjects of his photo book, is the truth really what we hear? The photographer states that:

“A more intricate view of our world, which takes into account the subjective and fictitious nature of the categories”.

In an era where truth is apparently a flexible commodity, the book aims to “pierce through the noise, buzz, pulp, lies, dreams, paranoia, cynicism and laziness and to embrace ‘reality’ in all its complexity”.