I was awarded a grant to pursue my interest in deconstructing and reconstructing the parts of cameras in Elon University’s Maker Space. I made lenses for the different cameras with the influence of how technology has changed through the evolution of time. This included pinhole, film, digital, polaroid, color usage, panoramic, diptych camera, etc.
My intent for the Frankenstein Camera was to explore the distortion that can be created in raw images before post editing. With editing programs so popularly used, we continue to trust most of what we see — allowing these images to act as real time evidence that something did or did not occur. I wanted to illustrate that we should start to question not trust what is captured no matter how raw an image can be. Photography is all about perspective and what the photographer chooses to include or not to include in a frame.
