The photographic image has always historizised; an artifact of the past, photographic moment. But just as it is conditioned by the temporal and material context of its making, its essence – if there is one – is conditioned by how we encounter the image. This encounter involves both the situation in which the image is seen and our individual selves in relation to it – our histories, beliefs, and expectations. To further reflect on this unstable, temporal quality of the photograph, we explore the meaning of looking at the future by looking at photographs. Artistically and philosophically a contradiction in terms, it is still a practice we experience: How to look ahead with something temporally bound to the past. To do this, we reflect on ‘Regarding the Pain of the Future’ by the first author and develop and discuss an artistic practice emphasising a second, photographic moment.
Photography, Temporality, and Thinking about the Future
Hilde Honerud is Norwegian visual artist. Her works are in the tradition of documentary photography, but her motifs are far from classical, and often abstracted. She studied at Napier University of Edinburgh and Oslo National Academy of the Arts, she is Associate Professor of Photography at University of South-Eastern Norway.
Jon Honerud is a sociologist and Associate Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway. His research relates to systems of representation, creativity and change, both in domains of visual art and organizations.
Honerud and Honerud have been collaborating for the last 12 years in different constellations relating to artistic project and artistic research, where Hilde works as artist and they together develop deliberations and new project venues. They are currently working on the ongoing project “Regarding the Pain of the Future”
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