How to know if the photograph is looking back at you? / by Lionel Samain

“How to take a photo? How to look at it? How to know if the photograph is looking back at you? Does it make any sense? How do I know that? Relax, I will explain everything with the most simple and clear words available.”

It’s started during that long period of confinement. I was thinking about starting a tutorial channel on Youtube. Just to know how it works. I sharpened my favourite pencil, visited the interior of the earth and came back with a text about fundamental differences between analog and digital medium, with a clear technical side. I read it out loud and though: this is absolutely boring. But the last paragraph was fun. So I started again from there.

For the rest, I wanted to be a modern day man: masked with a physical distance…

Analog or digital: what is the shape of your dreams?

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