In the work of Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Hartford, Connecticut, 1951) document and fiction coexist: his images record a reality that, at the same time, they create. Motivated by the wish not to force an unambiguous or Manichaean reading onto his photographs and to avoid taking a position of control over the situations he captures, diCorcia has built a series of portraits that, although born from an elaborate staging, enhanced by strobe lights hidden from the eyes of his subjects, have the gift of elevating and exaggerating the everyday. In this conversation with the American editor Nan Richardson, diCorcia discusses subjects such as the relations between art, business and the verbal scaffolding that sometimes oppresses or replaces the true power of contemporary photography. A pocket volume of the series Conversaciones con fotógrafos.