Here are some thoughts on process and materiality and how the digital translation of the photograph moves it into another, more ambiguous realm.
My study of process and materiality will move past the technical specifications of the camera and traditional photographic processes, which have been explored in many ways by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Elen Carey, Silvio Wolf, Walead Beshty, Wolfgang Tillmans, etc. What I want to pursue involves a break down of the digitization of photography into a medium that can be seamlessly mirrored into other mediums and how that is reflected in virtual identity and internet presence. The idea that binary numbers and meaningless data can be shaped into any form is juxtaposed with using these forms to create an identity so that it is both the person and not the person. It is suggesting the individual, the object and, at the same time, the eminent capacity for any form can disintegrate and turn into something else through representation.
"The Potato Eaters", 2008
