A project by Mark Selby.
Photographs can act as powerful mnemonic representations of our personal memories, indicative of time, place and experience. However as digital photographic technologies strive for ease, convenience and instantaneity, photographs are mass–produced. The camera democratizes experience, recording differing experiences in identical ways. Often not valued as memories, photographs become mundane representations of unremarkable and unfamiliar events whose mnemonic value is increasingly diluted.
Photographic Memories is an ongoing project that intends to make photography an integral component of experience. Like the map, or the ticket, the camera becomes necessary to the journey. Here photography encourages the experience of travel, capturing it in ways more appropriate to the activity.
Oct 19
Taking inspiration from digital pinhole photography, I decided to try getting a more ‘analogue’ experience out of digital photography. I bought an old Eastman-Kodak folding camera from eBay and used it to make a (rough) prototype post-optimal digital camera. Although not a pinhole camera, i wanted to use the Eastman-Kodak’s nostalgic qualities and it’s immense range of manual parameters to create a more craft based, and hopefully more creative digital photographic process.
