Burned

The early years of the 21st century saw the transformation of image recording from analog to digital. In the following years came the expected rise of digital technology spread through digital cameras available in every smartphone. I am an artist using the medium of photography. If I had been born in the next decade I would have missed the classic analog process. Nor would I have known what it was like to imagine the pictures I took, to work in the darkroom, to feel the near-magical thrill of developing photos and discovering their details under the enlarger.
I think that today I would not be interested in the medium of photography at all. As a photographer who learned the magic of the analog process, I also went through a stage of mourning for a bygone state of affairs, but over time I embraced the transformation of the medium and adapted to the digital age to the point of loving its possibilities.
The burning of the cameras appeared in my imagination as an image that summed up the complicated feelings surrounding the process of adaptation.
I symbolically cut off my grief for the change with the gesture of the bonfire, and at the same time, with the form of the lightbox, referring to the fireplace, I immortalized the nostalgic warmth which the memory of the process of analogue photography evokes in me.
No good camera was harmed in the process of taking the picture, all the equipment I burned was completely broken and no longer fit for anything.

Size of lightbox 60x80x10
Edition 5 + 1 AP