Expose, 2006

Resin=based Rapid Prototype Models of 35mm Film Canisters

Continuing a line of investigation exploring the violence of photographic language (snap, shoot, et al), Expose, a small grouping of transparent resin rapid-prototype (early 3D printing) film canisters, with and without film inside, reveals that the transparency expected of the subjects of photography, is not a condition that photography itself can sustain or be subject to. One of the imbalances of the photographic procedure - an imbalance written into what Flusser will describe as the photographic ‘program’, is the play of unequal relations between photography as a cultural practice, and the conditions of photography, and those who instrumentalise it, who are permitted to remain unseen.