
Science, magic and technology, or in praise of analogue photography.
It seems ironic that the way we think about photography has become so dispassionate – after all, it was once considered a way of locking people’s souls into motionless pictures. We trust the science behind each photograph so much – or perhaps so much time has passed since the first-ever face was captured through a lens – that we think less of clicking the shutter release than we do of pressing the dishwasher power button. And perhaps we do feel more awe when confronted with the wet turmoil inside the dishwasher’s innards than when witnessing what those photons, injected inside the camera, do on its digital matrix.
The photographic qua