The photographs below are from DSLR and iPhone of human artifice (from certain landscapes, artworks and buildings, to the framing of the photographs and the equipment itself), collected from the geographical areas: Europe, Asia, and Africa (2014 - 2024).    

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Having grown up in the 00s, I have first learnt about photography through my parents' photo albums. SLR Photographs were expensive and difficult to attain from film, which led to a belief that the subjects chosen in the photographs were more important. I was exposed to photography where people were the main subjects.

 

I had a teacher in primary school who was an avid traveller and wildlife/nature photographer. The teacher had a documentation of photographs from Guyana that featured non-humans as subjects from her travels, and this has made me develop an insight that people don't need to be the main figures in photographs.

 

This teacher has earned my respect because she makes people she taught felt seen. This is an example of "good image" Melanie Klein was writing about. I think social media hijacks this developmental process, as it summons object relations in the present moment rather than leaving it in the past i.e., finding people we once knew (that version/perception of them might be completely different to now. People change, we change, but memories stay the same over time).