Signal to Noise
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."*
Signal to Noise explores the relationship between the idea of the photograph and the passing of time. The very act of taking a photograph has transformed from marking an occasion into a thoughtless pressing of a phone screen. A photographic image that captures reality in the contemporary world becomes a reflex of the hand.
A photograph of a funeral remembers a moment in time. A photograph of the everyday does the same - but where the singularity of an event is multiplied into many smaller ones. What becomes of the moment of respect and silence, the moment of observation? What is the reason for remembering the slices of time that store everyday reality?
*Susan Sontag, On Photography
The book was created in a photography and collage workshop organised by TI-RE,
March 2019, Sofia.
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