MICROFILMS
Hundreds of vintage black-and-white photographs provide the initial source for this ongoing series. Attached to the camera of a mobile phone, a clip-on 12x macro lens is placed on the surface of various areas of the photographs and isolates tiny details of the latter, details that are ambiguous, repetitive, truncated, at times barely legible, stripped of their surrounding context, and varyingly distorted by the rudimentary optics of the clip-on lens. Arranged in uniform grids, they conjure up the furtiveness of espionage photos, of images captured without the knowledge or consent of the subjects, and offer the raw material for a multitude of possible permutations and narratives.
