Exploring the evolution of photography in the digital age
“Traditionally, photography has played a unique role in documenting the world and helping us to make sense of ourselves and each other,” according to TPG. “In today’s climate, however – where digital images flow, multiply and accelerate online with such unparalleled speed and force – the cultural responsibility of understanding an individual photograph is being usurped by the industrial challenge of processing millions of images.
“In a world where visual knowledge has become inextricably linked to a ‘like’ economy subject to the (predominantly invisible) actions of bots, crowd-sourced workers, Western tech companies and intelligent machines, All I Know Is What’s On The Internet considers the changing status of photography, as well as the role and agency of the photographer within this new context. Importantly it asks what new forms of economic value and media illiteracy arise from the endless recirculation of content online.”
Through a diverse range of projects, which disrupt, confuse or question these new image economies, All I Know Is What’s On The Internet presents a radical exploration of photography’s cultural value at a time when the boundaries between truth and fiction, machine and human are being increasingly called into question, featuring artworks by Constant Dullaart, Stephanie Kneissl, Max Lackner Franco and more.
All I Know Is What’s On The Internet is on display at The Photographers’ Gallery from 26 October 2018.
