Untitled

brian castriota

pocket interiors
2006-2007

this series came about as a result of the inconvenient placement of the digital camera button on the side of a cell phone i had from 2006 to 2007. it was a rather useless feature which I never used given the poor quality of the images, until i discovered that it had been inadvertantly making hundreds of photographs while tumbling around in my pocket. these images question conventional notions of objectivity and authorship within the discipline of photography. they are entirely symptomatic of our early 21st century technological context in which digital cameras have becomes so cheap to manufacture, and thus ubiquitous, that the act of taking the photograph is no longer intentional. in these photographs, the photographer is essentially removed from the traditional equation which has become reduced to chance and the camera itself. do I still retain "ownership" over these images? have i become simply the subject? impelled by the diaretical nature of these images, which document me and chronicle a period of my life, i quilted the images together to serve as an assertion of my authorship, a subjective reinterpretation of the uncensored objectivity of the original images.