I have this love hate relationship with the low-fi revolution that has been popularized everywhere, from visual to audio. I realize that part of this is nostalgia and part of it is that we as a society are scared to give in fully to the overwhelming coldness of an entirely digital existence. I guess that we have come full circle, past generations had less remove from the original source than today. Sure Walter Benjamin stated that the original was so far removed from its source that it lost its power, But I think that now the original has become more elevated for its "purity" "nuance" whatever you want to call it. For instance these photos. They have come so far from the analogue source that one could say what is the point of shooting film in the first place when you are going to scan, edit, reformat, upload, copy, paste etc.


For me it's in the action and the product, somehow not being privy to an instant preview makes image making more enjoyable. That being said how far gone is the source and does it matter in the first place if we are just going to look at the world through a digitized filter. I think that we desire the lack of control, to have something imperfect and one of a kind has trumped our fascination with the proliferation of the image. I buy into it too the fact that I can make something that is and never will be reproducible in its analogue format. So I still love the flexibility to manipulate and tweak things...that's human nature maybe..but I still have love for the chaos of the light sensitive chemical process that renders the world imperfect, skewed, and off kilter. It's closer to the truth that digital media has tried to make us forget...Life isn't perfect