editing
fuss#2
#2 Editing
Social media transforms the face of life in reality as a kind of fragments, also the photographs. Life is a series of continuous acts, but on social media, it is more like a pile of discontinuous, separated and scattered fragments. Think of the moments we disseminate our images on the social media: when we click the button “submit�, the happening in the photograph is presented-visually and technically-- as an independent, single event on the platform. When we click into our album and look at the thumbnails, they are like the accumulation of past events, being irrelevant to each other. They are a random glimpse of our life as a whole.
Organization and editing are not the focus of the social media, it is much more about the instant response and the linkage with real life. Information on internet is also more about its immediateness and its huge quantity. In such atmosphere on Internet and the fancy mobile gadgets, we are encouraged to make more and more photographs day by day-- we enjoy the instant and endless pleasure from such constant uploading and sharing of photos, rather than to organize stuffs.
The pleasure brought by every time’s dissemination of photographs makes us being idle. We seem don’t have much intention to organize what we made, and seldom look back to what we made before. The next time we disseminate a new photographs, we don’t pay much attention to the last photograph we upload as beyond is beyond.
But beyond can be more than just beyond. Through organizing and editing the previous photographs, we may find out a new aspect among all those: that may be a kind of style you like, a theme you keep discussing through photographs but you unaware of it or relationship among the photos. Edition of photographs can be push much more forward by using the photographs as a kind of visual material to do exploration graphically-- sorting, sequencing, positioning, and even adding text.
Our photographs may be random and scattered, or seems to be a one-off consumption good, but all these, definitely are not the reason to ignore their huge ability of doing one’s reflection as well as the potential of generating a new depth, new point of view and meaning.
About this issue’s photographs All the photographs are selected from instagram accounts @hippiesummergirl, through 2012. They are not taken seperately without referring each other. They are pick up and organize through combination and the means of layout to demonstrate possibilities among photographs.
fuss is a self-initiated project focusing on the scene of daily life photographs influenced by nowadays’ technology. It aims to reflect on the new nature of daily life photography we made today and to find the value in it. Concept, text, photographs and design are all by Fuse Tsang.