The art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on sensitive surface (such as film or an optical sensor) — Merriam-Webster Dictionary

1# The system of representations based on ideology, historical and social factors, is today expanded by the politics of algorithms, the impact of social media platforms as well as the practices of intelligent machines. Our understanding of the photographic image and the world as a whole is now based on a complex set of techniques, significations and coded relations between the digital-computational, the institutional and the individual. — unthinking photography, About page, https://unthinking.photography/

2#  The key challenge of working as a digital curator is finding ways to make visible and intelligible the various techno-social infrastructures which sustain the photographic image today. This requires a shift in thinking about not only what an image represents, but how it is operationalised by both human and non-human actors. — Katrina Sluis, interviewed by Lewis Bush for 1000 Words