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Image-reality tensions through postmodern, psychoanalytic and critical theory lenses.
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The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Manufactures Reality
Reality was never the point. What we actually crave is credibility — the illusion that the world can still be known if we frame it just right.
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Photography’s Long Battle for Artistic Legitimacy
Photography was born not in studios of painters but in laboratories. The medium’s first practitioners were chemists, astronomers, inventors, and entrepreneurs, tinkering with glass plates and light-sensitive chemicals.
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The City as Living Archive
The city, as I read it, is a living archive—messy, polyphonic, and resistant to closure.
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Why I Reject the Pretense of Documentary Neutrality
Neutrality is a myth. Every photograph is already a construction. It’s a comforting illusion to think otherwise.
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Double Exposure: How Kyoto and I Became Each Other’s Props
How mass tourism and social media create Baudrillard’s hyperreality.
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Cindy Sherman’s Deepfake Ghost: Performing Identity
Cindy Sherman’s groundbreaking self-portraits expose identity as a constructed performance.
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A Postmodern Defense of Street Photography Against Susan Sontag’s Moralism
Susan Sontag’s critiques of photography—its voyeurism, detachment, and potential to aestheticize suffering—loom large over debates about street photography.