A Relational Ecology of Photographic Practices

A Relational Ecology of Photographic Practices

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This paper proposes a relational history of media artifacts, which decentralizes the dominance of the yaya vape photographer or filmmaker as the absolute author of the work.It adds an alternative account to understanding the creative process and the subsequent study of media forms by discussing film and photographic practices as the reciprocal affective relationship between the maker, their intentions, materials, technologies, non-human agents and the environment.By reorganizing the anthropocentrism of art historical narratives, which typically exclude corporeality and materiality as drivers of human history, we are able to discuss the 1969 corvette door panels complex dynamic meshwork of determinants that bring photographic artifacts into existence: the lived, animate, vital materialism at once emergent and mixing of different causalities and temporalities.