Technology has transformed photography. For many, the photograph is now the proof, not the record, of lived experience. The contemporary culture is suffused with digital images. They spread like viruses, we play host to them with every digital post we make. There would seem to be little use for damage in this process. Yet there is. Many mobile phone images are instantly processed with filters that emulate damage. Overexposure, vignetting, and light leaks have become part of the language of social photography, applied without thought or any understanding of the real damage they emulate. I think that the success of tools such as Instagram is a sign that our culture is feeling the loss the tangible moment, the existential temporality that photography so eloquently speaks, the damage that my images concentrate.
