Single - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Old Process »

the specifics might be vague explores the role images play in truth and distortion within our memory. Truth and authenticity have always been entangled with photography. The photographer both conceals and reveals, curating the images of our lives. Images spark memories and stories, overwriting the truth we may seek. With the increasing ease in the use of artificial intelligence and digital manipulation, images help create your desired, synthetic memory. Each time we access a memory, we rewrite the moment. The very act of remembering alters the facts. This process, called reconsolidation, makes the image a bit more blurry and malleable, a retelling of the last time we shared the memory. Using analog photographs from my family archive, I re-record them as digital files and pixelate each image by hand, blurring some areas while others remain visible, shaping the image into a new narrative. When we question the authenticity of every image we see, how do we define truth? Memory is flexible and always changing; the only constant is the stories we tell ourselves.