A Baudrillardian concept describing the condition where simulations (media, digital constructs) become more “real” than reality itself, erasing distinctions between authentic and artificial (e.g., virtual worlds, AI-generated personas).
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The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Manufactures Reality
Press photographs do not merely reflect the world. Through captions, professional codes, editorial routines and repetition, journalism turns situated choices about who is visible and…
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Mary Ellen Mark: The Ethics of Seeing
Mary Ellen Mark built her documentary practice through encounters that were embedded, revisited or carefully staged. Her subjects look back, pose, speak and change, but…
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The City as Living Archive
A city does not become an archive because it remembers everything. It becomes one through the fragments photographers select, caption, sequence and return to, each…
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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 staged photographs expose identity as a constructed performance, a condition intensified by social media, filters and deepfakes.