Fantastic Voyage [objkt4objkt 2024]

I take pictures of moments that never happened and landscapes that don’t exist using a smartphone camera, a light source, and an interlocutor - an object that controls the light going into the lens through filtering, diffusion, diffraction, and reflection. Recent images have been shot with wrappers from candy and Scottish chocolate caramel wafer biscuits as well as labels reclaimed from food and drink.

These images are built up in a systematic way in the panorama function in the iPhone camera. The patterns created in the panorama application are ingested by the image processing system in the iPhone and output as images because the phone doesn’t know I am doing it wrong. The final image is partly controlled by the input data (color, light, and movement) and partly controlled by the software on the iPhone. This is best described as a form of generative photography.

shot on iphone