I photograph not to represent but to encounter and experience object-connection. I photograph not as the privileged subject-photographer or in order to create the privileged photo-object (the decisive moment) but within a flat non-correlationist photographic ontology. I look to work with this philosophy by photographing a democracy of objects, connecting with objects within objects. In …
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Object-oriented photography and vibrant matter
My photography is object-oriented. This OOPh, as I call it, is informed by the work of Harman but also by that of Jane Bennett who, in Vibrant Matter (2010a) identifies an agentic capacity in material objects1 When she starts from “one large men’s black plastic work glove; one dense mat of oak pollen; one unblemished …
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Object-oriented photography: a draft manifesto
Object-oriented photography (OOPh) is the practice of encountering objects. It is a sensibility and sensitivity to objects in their vibrant materiality, their actuality and their reality.This sensibility is built around the following precepts: Object-oriented photography OOPh is anti-correlationist. It does not start from the human-world or photographer-subject correlate. OOPh is not anti-human or even anti-humanist …
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Towards an object-oriented photography
Paper given at the Perceptions of Practice conference, Nottingham Trent University 11.07.11 When Robert Jackson, who you will hear from later, visited my home for the first time the other night, he remarked: “what a lot of stuff”. He meant it as a complement, an observation that mine was a family home not a show …
Restaurant – U.S. 1 leaving Columbia, South Carolina
In Restaurant – U.S. 1 leaving Columbia, South Carolina (image-object) a TV screen retreats. In the corner of a seemingly deserted restaurant, the unmistakable rounded corners of a 1955 TV set stands alone. There is no human presence (we will talk about Frank in a moment). The bright screen and the burnt-out window, table edge …
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