The images appear at polar opposites of the photographic continuum. At one end there is the application of panoramic photography in recording the horrors following one of Japan's worst earthquake in history. Then, at the other end of the spectrum, one can find artist Lea Redmond's template for the World’s Smallest Postcard. It may seem like a stretch to make a connection between such extreme applications of photography, but there is an underlying force at work here -- one that lives well outside the world of aestethics and the arts.
Computational processes now determine the rich and vivid vidual world we live in today. Our visual world, and in a way our reality, is being altered by computer programs that make it possible to create richer and perhaps more meaningful representations of our experiences. Computer programmers hold the keys to the kingdom in terms of an ever increasingly world in which computer graphics and photography converge.
Damage in Rikuzen-Takada, Iwate Pref. (10) in Japan These images are stunning in the sense that they provide a unique context and an unusual context in the scale of the devastation.
Damage in Rikuzen-Takada, Iwate Pref. (8) in Japan