Utopia

The word utopia comes from Greek: ou (not) and toπos (place) and means no-place or nonexisting place. Within the philosophical context of the theory of photography, the author points out that the constellation that the photographer captures is a mix of four-dimensional space, the quantity of time, and the flow of light. According to this, the photographer changes the existence of objects and subjects which is the meaning behind the photographic record.

The author’s interest goes strictly into the word no-place. She is linking it with the medium of photography. Therefore photographs of frozen time and captured place is somehow stuck so we can understand it as this no-place or nonexisting place because the captured moment no longer exists. The central motive of the work is the column as a fundamental element of the construct. Repetitiveness refers to an inexhaustible set of capture options, but at the same time, it combines panoramic still image and circular crops of captured environment that makes the viewer think about space in fragments of reality. Photographs made with an analog camera stand as proof of the existence of these columns, but on the other hand, film colors refer to the idealized world. Therefore photography is a utopia in itself. It is an idealized state.