This is a video of a talk I gave in 2015 entitled: "The indecisive moment: the multiple instances of photography." This is outlining some of my ideas and arguments that challenge the received ideas of what photography and photographs are and are becoming. I begin with a consideration of the increasing disappearance and mutation of what is a camera (by this I mean the sense in which the term camera as an object directly connected to photographic image making may no longer be a relevant or significant relationship).
I then consider what photographs once did and what they now do. I ask how this change in their function may not be necessarily obvious – to the extent that we may still be asking the same old questions about what is essentially a new subject. Rather than simply trying to find modified or renewed answers, I suggest we need to formulate new questions in order to understand what photography has become.
I have uploaded the notes from this lecture here.