Iñaki Bonillas | Iñaki Bonillas (Aperture) Bye Bye Photography. 2018.
“For this image, and the other seven belonging to the series ‘Bye Bye Photography,’ I asked an actress to portray, using nothing but her hands, a photographer in action
(...) . What we see then is nothing but the gestures of the hands while taking a picture, and the voids that form around those hands where a camera is no longer there—yet is somehow still present.
In 1972, Daido Moriyama made his legendary book, Bye Bye Photography, in an attempt to answer the pressing question of what photography could still be for his generation. For me, that question needed to be urgently revisited. What we are looking at right now is not only the production of images in astronomical quantities, but also in a mode where even the concept of photography has vanished. Those images seen everywhere, although strictly photographic, are just ghosts, shadows of what we used to think of as photos. They are not even images really, but a jelly substance reflecting reality so thinly, so ephemerally, that what we are left with is just a void in our hands—nothing but the interstices where photography can still, at times, make an appearance.”
- Iñaki Bonillas
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