ISSP 2019 Publication - Photography and the World

Photography lies behind almost every imaging-practice
and technology we're using nowadays. We're
not sure the world needs photography, perhaps the
world takes for granted that photography is everywhere
like the air we breathe.
Simone Santilli
We need photography to see connections
between the world and ourselves.
Yagiz Yesilkaya
Images create spaces we have not observed or
encountered before; make us see through dreaming.
The nature of photography itself, as a disruption of
time and space, challenges the power of the vision
today as one of the ways to escape the metaphysics
of presence opening a conversation between seeing,
language and thinking.
Ioanna Sakellaraki
The world probably does not need photography.
Although I need photography as a photographer,
it is probably arrogance to think like photography
is one of the necessary elements for everyone
living in this world.
Keiji Fujimoto
Documentation of the moment that will never
happen the same again, ever.
Minjun Kim
Because it can show how a person views the world
and efficiently communicate with other humans.
Francis Belte
We tell each other in our own way, through photographs,
that the view of the world has our original
view. I think that it will be more necessary in the
future to express one's identity. Photographs reflect
reality, so there is a more realistic representation
than literature and films. In the future, the virtual
world and the artificial computer will dominate us
more and more, I think that photography is a necessary
thing as a media that we are aware of in the
real world as a reality.
Kai Yokoyama
From my point of view, the world needs stories and
storytellers. Stories to identify with, stories to make
sense of the world, stories to give comfort, joy and
hope, or to give the frame to things which are hard
to process or listen to, stories to help healing and to
motivate to get active.
Nastassja Nefjodov
019 Who cares?
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Who am I ignoring?