2021 will mark 195 years of the invention of the photograph (a heliograph) in 1826 in France. In this ‘post-digital’ moment, images of our lives may well have become trans-temporal — funnelling a resilient innovativeness around the idea of identity. He shows us how making something visible comes from a recognition of absence, urging us to be aware of presence. It also makes us aware that as the narrative of the recent past unfolds, the present must always make room for new images to activate memories of the past. Perhaps some answers about ‘revisiting the present’ lie in seeing this moment as an afterlife of the recent past, an invisible yet imperative call to make us react.

Source: The Hindu December 25, 2020 09:22 UTC