stephen rood

Exploring the possibility of an imageless photographic practice.

Photography is typically considered in terms of how we experience and interpret images, with most discussions focusing on the images themselves.

However, this project takes a different approach, moving beyond conventional and digital photography debates. It views photography as a practice rooted in materials and techniques, aligning with Patrick Maynard’s concept of it as a “technological way of doing things.”

This perspective enables us to examine the objects of photography through the lens of flat ontologies, challenging traditional hierarchies. By de-emphasising its representational function and rethinking its objects, this project proposes that photography can be seen as a performative act.

This project seeks to develop a notion of photographic. It offers an interpretation of photographic practice that reconfigures its objects to pose them as the sites of knowledges in motion.