Fighting against the notion of bad photography and bad photographs, I started working on this series as I was fed up with taking care to capture the details and having the right frame and composition in photographs. My photography started to feel very restricted, so I decided to experiment with all the things that would be considered bad in photography.  Through this project, I wanted to make work that challenges the standard rules of composition and the notion of good photographs. Playing around with the concepts of abstract, sublime, and surreal photography, these photographs are meant to show that bad photography can also create good photographs.

Digital Noise- Digital noise appears in photography as small specs throughout the image, especially in the shadows. Noise refers to unwanted information. It is similar to film grain in traditional photography and ranges from barely visible to annoying to a sign of low image quality. It can become a glaring issue in extreme conditions. For example, low light situations such as night photography, long exposures, and shooting at high ISO settings produce more noise. The good news is that we have options on how to manage digital noise through camera settings, post-processing software, or a combination of both.

WHAT DOES THE NOISE DO TO THE PHOTOS?

The use of digital noise in photographs creates a pattern and the missing details create a sense of absence. The noise makes it hard to figure out the details in the photographs. So it takes time to figure out the photograph. The idea does not align with the philosophy of a good photograph where the details are clear and the photographs create a clear idea of sublime, realism, Portraits, etc.

The photographs are borderline readable but like our brain tends to cover up some of the missing text while we are reading the brain tends to cover up the missing detail of the image, which would vary from person to person. The areas of detail left in the photographs act as the connecting dots to help viewers make sense of the photograph.

The photos will also make more sense when looked at from far away but become confusing when it is looking at them from up close. This is because the remaining details in the photograph seem far apart when the photographs are looked from up close as compared to when looked from far.