Gottfried Helnwein, famous in the art world as painter and politically committed performer, familiar to a wide audience, complimented his work in art with photography from the outset. What had then begun as a documentation of his actions was granted autonomy through the years as he became conscious of how many effective possibilities photography possessed, possibilities which remain outside the realm of painting and drawing. Whilst it is essential to the painting - especially those which tend to hyper-realism - that it is a product of the imaginary force and fantasy of the artist, every photographic project, however much it has been manipulated, bears a reminder of the authentic force of its daily uses for documentation in both the private and public sectors. If Gottfried Helnwein has to make use of a photographic accurateness in his painting so as to make his fiction and fantasy as real as possible (and consequently believable), it would suffice to occasionally use inconspicuous changes and simple superimposition in order to smelt two realities into one to fuse that which is divided by space or by means of montage without the force of authenticity suffering any damage.