Susan Sontag, On Photography

"To collect photographs is to collect the world. Movies and television programs light up walls, flicker, and go out; but with still photographs the image is also an object, light-weight, cheap to produce, easy to carry about, accumulate, store. In Godard's Les Carabiniers (1963), two sluggish lumpen-peasants are lured into joining the King's Army by the promise that they will be able to loot, rape, kill, or do whatever they please to the enemy, and get rich. But the suitcase of booty that Michael-Ange and Ulysse triumphantly bring home, years later, to their wives turns out to contain oly picture postcards...Godards gag vividly parodies the equivocal magic of the photographic image."

© Susan Sontag

This section of Sontag's famous essay relates to the essence of the photograph. Memory, knowledge and evidence are all tied to the photographic image. I aim to address the idea of storing and accumulating through the presentation of my images. I will be creating my own "suitcase of booty"...