For quite a while, if I am brutally honest, I am getting a little bored of a lot of photography. We must see hundreds and thousands of still and moving images on a daily and weekly basis retrospectively. The creation of instagram, the vast online image banks and the sheer accessibility of photography has made it incredibly common. And 'common' to me doesn't often equate to exciting.
This is why for the last 5 or 6 years I have strongly believed that photography needs to evolve just like most of the rest of the fine art world has. It needs to make space for a new wave of 'contemporary photographers' to not only push the boundaries technically but most importantly, conceptually.
But is even this about to change? Is it possible that a photograph or a video will no longer be constructed, composed and captured physically, but digitally?
Have a watch of Alex Roman's video - The Third and the Seventh. The remarkable 12 minute video was not shot with a camera but entirely constructed and animated on Autodesk's 3D studio Max software by one man. Even the stunning music was written by him!
Will we one day be creating our shots digitally where there are no limitations on light, structure, gravity, time of year, location, budget..? Certainly food for thought anyway..