ight photography gives us a glimpse of the private lives things have when no one is looking at them. This is a sleeping world of dreams. Yet these images are not about the Self, which for perhaps two centuries has increasingly come to dominate everything. Aided by technology, photographers are able to achieve what one of my friends referred to as “objects stripped of their subjectivity.” These are photographs that reflect the collective (not the individual) unconscious and subconscious. It’s tempting to say these scenes look dead – that time in them has stopped – but I think these images instead capture time in stasis. This is life when you press the Pause button.
