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It seems that photography might be the best medium to provide the forum for discussions over some important post-modernist propositions such as reality, originality, crafts, or uniqueness for it’s extensive potential to record as well as being reproduced and manipulated. While we are gearing into the cybernated revolution in representation and communication, the ontological definition of photography is under reconstruction along with the way that the basic components of a picture being shifted from fixed grains to movable pixels. What will happen when photography is no longer a single print on paper, when the content can be altered seamlessly at the photographer’s (or anybody’s) will? Do we construct the reality through the fragments of experiences just like the way we compose a screen of image by scan lines? Or does reality fragment us deep enough that all the thoughts and dreams only reflect upon the streams of data debris in the information society? These are the questions that intrique me a lot.

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