Magic Incantations

Analogue photography, storytelling and AI are each a kind of incantations, rituals for summoning images out of light, words and code. Here they are layered, glitched, retold until they become worlds of their own. Hito Steyerl describes the prompt as a magic incantation. Analogue photography and storytelling are incantations of another kind, each a different way of reaching back to a moment: the camera catches its light, while words try to describe the experience once had. Analogue images here shot on an Agfa Clack, a simple camera that once brought photography to a wider public. None of these spells returns exactly what was lived. Layer by layer, each image drifts into a world of its own, born from the friction where human perception and machine processing misread each other.