Elif Cecen

"Ways of Seeing"

Section MS5, Mark Campbell

Keywords: photography

Sometimes it is dark, sometimes there is a clear sky and sometimes it is just somehow blurry...

Through the lens of the camera, we see things differently, we see things how we want to see them. Press the shutter and you just don’t know what’s going to come up after you finish the film. This is of course for analogue cameras which are full of surprises. There are also digital ones where you can take hundreds of photos and the result is not very surprising. But beauty is different. It is up to you, how you see it and press that shutter both in analogue and digital.

This project aims to compare analogue and digital cameras, their results from the same spots, at the same time and what are the affects when they are printed. To the differences between photos, an folded booklet will be distributed and photo series like Eve Sonneman diptychs, Real Time, created. In the experiment, Minolta 35 mm Analogue Camera (faulty), Rollie 35 mm Analogue Camera (faulty), Kodak Instant Camera and an iPhone Camera used. Analogue cameras are their period’s everyday cameras and now iPhone cameras became everyday cameras. The results are very much different then each other because the climate, cold weather affected analogue cameras, where as nothing happened to the digital outcome. Every step of the process changes or adds on something to the image. The end result what we didn’t see from the lens. The ways of seeing changes every step of the way.