Ninth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

Presenting initial thoughts on a series of experiments with sound recording and still photography. In a purposefully naïve attempt to reconsider what the still image does and how it does it, I began a photographic project which also involved the recording of sound at the same site at the same time. In the resulting work, a minute’s worth of this aural snapshot is looped and paired with the still photograph. The repetition in the recorded loop of sound allows repeat access to the aural experience in the same way that the photograph infinitely repeats its own fraction of a second. Can the sound from a photographic site offer new insights into the understanding and reception of the still photograph? Does the addition of an aural snapshot add to or reduce the power of the still photograph? Which sense wins?