Photographic Memories


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
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A change of direction…

The more I developed the project the more I was struggling to answer important questions like, who is the camera for? Where are they using it? And why are they using it?
Not being able to answer these questions meant that there were some serious holes in the project that needed addressing, so i decided to skip back a few steps in the design process and conduct a little research.