Provocative philosopher analyzing hyperreality, media, and postmodern society.
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Why I Reject the Pretense of Documentary Neutrality
Neutrality taught me useful disciplines: verify, do not stage and do not let a caption outrun the evidence. It also taught me to mistake professional restraint for the absence of a position. Rejecting that fiction does not make subjectivity virtuous. It makes the photographer more answerable for what an image claims and what happens after…
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Double Exposure: How Kyoto and I Became Each Other’s Props
In Kyoto, tourists arrive with pictures already in mind, and the city adapts to help produce them. Photographing that circuit critically does not place me outside it. It makes my complicity the subject.
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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.
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A Postmodern Defense of Street Photography Against Susan Sontag’s Moralism
Sontag diagnosed postmodern image culture, then judged it with a modernist moral vocabulary. A committed postmodernist defends street photography through situated responsibility, not innocence.