Photographic Memories

Photographs can act as powerful mnemonic representations of our personal memories, indicative of time, place and experience. However as digital photographic technologies strive for ease, convenience and instantaneity, photographs are mass–produced. The camera democratizes experience, recording differing experiences in identical ways. Often not valued as memories, photographs become mundane representations of unremarkable and unfamiliar events whose mnemonic value is increasingly diluted.
Photographic Memories is an ongoing project that intends to make photography an integral component of experience. Like the map, or the ticket, the camera becomes necessary to the journey. Here photography encourages the experience of travel, capturing it in ways more appropriate to the activity.

This project was in 2 parts:

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About

My name is Mark and I’m a product interaction designer and researcher. Or something.

I am currently a PhD student at Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Lab and Horizon DTC, where I am conducting design lead research into the consequences and implications of the technology mediated practices that we currently employ to record and recollect our experiences.
Alongside academic research I have maintained my own creative practice, and continue to work with commercial design studios, artists, galleries and research labs, on anything from hardware development and prototyping to interaction design and conceptual development.

I am also a co-founder and collaborator at The Institute for Boundary Interactions; an interdisciplinary research collective research working across science, technology, art and design.

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