After Photography: Taking, Faking, Making, Breaking

The massive presence of digital processes has, in the last twenty years, converted the entire history of analogue photography into a theme park of “alternative” techniques displaced by the pervasiveness of the virtual image. A substantial part of the artistic practice of Victor Stamp involves the recovery, recycling and remixing of traditional photographic images into new works that create a tension and a confrontation between digital and analogue. In this talk the artist places his own work in the context of the primitive photographic gesture (taking), attempts to dissimulate or enhance the truth of the image (faking), artisanal techniques (making) and iconoclastic practices of image transformation (breaking).