THE EYE WITH WHICH I SEE GOD IS THE SAME EYE WITH WHICH GOD SEES ME (Photophobia)

photo: Nicéphore Niepce 1826

 

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commissioned by:

National Centre for Contemporary Arts

Kaliningrad

2010

 

I was asked to create a video by using the world's first photograph "View from the window at Le Gras"

by Nicéphore Niepce, 1826 (see picture above)

 

In my photographic work I am exploring ways to set up the camera as a capture device in order to unveil aspects of reality that would otherwise remain invisible to the unequipped eye.

I imagine that Niepce's picture is originating from a time when people were afraid of their souls being stolen by the camera and trapped forever in the image.

My video is tracing four captured souls that seem to have been sealed in Niepce's image for nearly 200 years.

 

THE EYE WITH WHICH I SEE GOD IS THE SAME EYE WITH WHICH GOD SEES ME (Photophobia)

photo: Nicéphore Niepce 1826

 

... play video ...

 

 

commissioned by:

National Centre for Contemporary Arts

Kaliningrad

2010

 

I was asked to create a video by using the world's first photograph "View from the window at Le Gras"

by Nicéphore Niepce, 1826 (see picture above)

 

In my photographic work I am exploring ways to set up the camera as a capture device in order to unveil aspects of reality that would otherwise remain invisible to the unequipped eye.

I imagine that Niepce's picture is originating from a time when people were afraid of their souls being stolen by the camera and trapped forever in the image.

My video is tracing four captured souls that seem to have been sealed in Niepce's image for nearly 200 years.