We live inside the image ↗
A house viewing, a wide-angle lens and the versions of life that arrive before we do.
Read the essay →Battery
Images, memory and being human in the age of representation.
I make images for a living. This is where I ask what they do after we make them.
How a photograph holds someone close. How a brand collects meaning. How a version of a person can begin to stand in for the person themselves.
Battery moves through memory, desire, identity and freedom. Written from inside the work: the studio, the campaign, the screen, the decisions that give an image its direction.
Start reading →Before the chapters
I / The image remembers
- A present obsessed with the pastForthcoming
- Memory, pain and the imageForthcoming
- Photography and the promise of truthForthcoming
- Can we write history through images?Forthcoming
II / The image works
- The image as a toolForthcoming
- The brand as battery ↗Read
- Advertising and the manufacture of desireForthcoming
- Propaganda, cinema and the military imaginationForthcoming
- The beautiful lie of responsibilityForthcoming
- An idea needs a verbForthcoming
- Surveillance and the image without consentForthcoming
- The code and the cageForthcoming
III / The image becomes us
- My museum, made by me and myselfForthcoming
- The body as imageForthcoming
- The art of taking things outForthcoming
- The hysterical sublimeForthcoming
- At the edge of falsehoodForthcoming
- The images we cannot seeForthcoming
- Are humans even real?Forthcoming
IV / The image and freedom
- Image and freedomForthcoming
- Leaving on footForthcoming
- The icon and the idolForthcoming
- The hand and the imageForthcoming
- Bread today, hunger tomorrowForthcoming
- The war against beautyForthcoming
- Before you approve the imageForthcoming
- Towards a humanist imageForthcoming
Afterwards
- Inside the imageForthcoming
- Nerd Stuff / A reading routeForthcoming
- Key terms without the headacheForthcoming