Unphotography

Unphotography, Kypros Kyprianou (2023)
9:16 portrait mounted HD moving image, Colour, Sound, 12 min loop

Unphotography enlists the help of machine learning in attempting to remember and recreate an incident from almost forty years ago. Back then, I was prevented from taking a photograph of the buffer zone next to a sign with the instruction ‘no photography’.

I used various machine learning programmes to create images to visualise and remember what I failed to record at the time. In the process, between instruction and recall, the original untaken image became less, then more and then less (un)clear.

Photo credit: Chrysoulla Photography