Heraclitus' saying "Panta rhei" or "everything flows" perhaps best describes the flux of life we experience every day. Even more so, these days, when we struggle to reason about our world in common sense and science. From generation to destruction, peace to war, quantum physics to consciousness, artificial intelligence to feelings, organisms to societies, energy to climate change or from spacetime to beauty. If we admit that ever-present change is the essence of the universe and the basic entiti… more

From its inception, viewers have been fascinated by the seemingly tangible presence of the world as it is represented in the photographic image. Although we are very well aware of the many interventions photographers execute - framing, distance, lightening, focus, speed - to say nothing of intents to deceive via fraudulent manipulations, in our everyday life we are governed by the presumption that a photograph has a more privileged connection to what it represents than any drawing or painting … more

Time and light are known to be crucial aspects in the development of the medium of photography, from its pioneering period to the present day. While exposure times in the mid-19th century were still so long that people had to be fixed in place during portrait sessions in order to achieve a mimetic image, a century later it was already possible to take pictures in a tiny fraction of a second, with which photographers could freeze extremely fast processes in such a way that we can see more in t… more