Sam Merrell

…flict. Then there’s also good investigative journalism coming back, like The Intercept for example. I really believe that artists who have a strong individual point of view about what’s happening in the world today, and try to express this in their own forms, are becoming very important in today’s age of confusion, because that’s where poetry, subjectivity and emotions have much more room to tell a story than in the confined space of a daily newspaper, for example. So, I haven’t lost hope, I just think it should be seriously reflected on.

…r with child’, go along with an article that needs a powerful illustration to sell more newspapers? What happens when that’s the only image we will be able to see and associate with important events? It creates a detachment from the subject and what’s actually going on. How can we make new images that really engage with the subject and at the same time have the ability…

…to touch anything to make a picture. Flusser makes us think about automation as creativity’s devil. The more something becomes automated, the less room there is for creative input, the less choices you can make as a human using a camera. This is more about looking into the future possibilities of what happens when we don’t need photogr…