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SLOW PHOTOGRAPHY MANIFEST

MORE THAN 95 MILLION PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ARE POSTED DAILY ON INSTAGRAM.

IS IT REASONNABLE TO TAKE SO MANY PICTURES?

Do you know how many digital photos will be taken in 2017? Itʼs predicted there will be 7.5 billion people in the world in 2017, and about 5 billion of them will have a mobile phone. Letʼs say roughly 80% of those phones have a built-in camera:

around 4 billion people. And letʼs say they take 10 photos per day – thatʼs 3,650 photos per year, per person. That adds up to more than 14 trillion photos annually (14,600,000,000,000).

Much more conservatively, if only one billion people have

cameras or phones, and take less than 3 photos per day/1,000 pictures per year, thatʼs still 1 trillion photos captured every year.

Eric Perret

Our digital life also has a foot print. The 100 french most visited websites use as much electicity as 3000 houses.

The virtual world has a real impact on the planet. New technologies use about 10% of worldwide electricity and

produce as much gas emission as aviation. It is a little compared to fossil energy, but it is big enough to cause dammage, especially when only 42% of the world population have internet access.

The “cloud� is an amazing service, but these Internet services increase massively the usage of energy.

ClĂŠo Schweyer, Laborantine en chef, Univ-Lyon 1

We are now aware of the downside of overconsumption.

We are (re)-learning how to buy. Buy less and better, buy sustainable, re-use and repair.

Do you think we will (re)-learn how to take pictures ?

Do you think that in the future we will be more conscious about it?

Will we take less and better ones? Do you think we will re-use and repair them, and make sure to take good care of them ?

Badly framed photos, blurry, too dark, too light, fingers on the lens, pictures taken by accident. We want to give another look at them, and value them for what they are, because they are all irresistible.

HAVE YOU REACHED TOO MANY PHOTOS YET?

IN THE AGE OF IMAGE ABUNDANCE, PURGES ARE A WAY OF LIFE”.

We all take tons of photos on our smartphones. It almost seems crazy not to, given the high quality of the cameras that manufacturers are cramming into every high-end phone.

Unfortunately, most of us are taking more photos than we can handle. We regularly wonder what we should do with all of our smartphone photos.

Slow photography

Back in the old days, before we went digital, pictures were taken on special occasions, like birthdays or Prom. Now, we document every moment of our lives, and the pictures are often empty, with no connection to a memory or emotion. On the flip side, the

slow photography movement focuses on picture-taking as a creative process, where the process is more important than the picture. ItĘźs basically the difference between creating a memory, and just clicking away at everything in sight.

Bottom line: The point of slow photography is to slow down and experience what youĘźre doing instead of simply snapping a picture and walking away.

Tesh.com 2019

IN THE FUTURE, WE WILL PHOTOGRAPH EVERYTHING AND LOOK AT NOTHING.

YOUR ICLOUD STORAGE IS FULL.

THE DOWNSIDE TO TAKING SO MANY PHOTOS IS THAT WE USUALLY DON’T INVEST THE TIME IT TAKES TO ORGANIZE AND PROTECT THEM.

SOME RESEARCHERS DETERMINED THAT INSTAGRAMMING YOUR FOOD CAN ACTUALLY MAKE IT TASTE BETTER.

It turns out that drowning in photos or running out of storage space arenʼt the only reasons you may want to take fewer photos.

Over-documenting the antics of your adorable cat or photographing your daily latte doesnʼt seem that harmful. And thereʼs pretty

much no argument that will make a proud parent stop taking tons of photos of their child or children. If you donʼt document those moments now, then youʼve lost your chance.

But there are actually a few solid reasons psychologists think you may want to take fewer smartphone photos —

and itʼs not because theyʼre worried about the state of your camera roll, or concerned about what happens when youʼre close to running out of space on your phone.

Itʼs Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are?

In 2005, Yahoo acquired Flickr, the popular photo site.

It already had a photo site, Yahoo! Photos, which was created in March 2000. But donʼt worry, the company said: The two could happily coexist.

In 2007, Yahoo announced it would discontinue that first photo service, and that users should move their photos to Flickr, which now required a Yahoo account to use. In 2013, the company announced that Flickr users would have a terabyte of space — for most people, an effectively unlimited amount — to store images for free.

By then, digital cameras were ubiquitous and smartphones had gone mainstream. People were producing more photos than ever, but it still wasnʼt clear where they were supposed to end up.

Earlier this year, Flickr, now owned by Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon, made another announcement: It would be selling to SmugMug, a smaller competitor. By making promises it couldnʼt back up, based on an advertising model that it couldnʼt sustain, Flickr said, Yahoo had “attracted members who were drawn by the free storage,” rather than “lovers of photography.”

This news came with a new default storage limit: 1,000 photos. Users could begin paying or take the rest elsewhere. A digital photo first uploaded to Yahoo at the turn of the century, in other words, when most people online were still dialing in to get there, and not once again rescued this year, may finally meet its demise. It would have had a better run than most. And here it is, 2019.

Do you know where your photos are?

Most of us donʼt, at least not exactly, or in terms that we fully understand. Holding on to pictures was, for most of the history of photography, a matter of material decay and physical storage. Are these prints fading, and how fast?

Are they organized by year or by subject? Do I know where they are?

John Herrman

“ HELLO LAURA MONDAINE, YOUR ICLOUD STORAGE IS FULL. BECAUSE YOU’VE EXCEEDED YOUR STORAGE PLAN, YOUR DOCUMENTS, CONTACTS, AND DEVICE DATA ARE NO LONGER BACKING UP TO ICLOUD AND YOUR PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ARE NOT UPLOADING TO ICLOUD PHOTOS. ICLOUD DRIVE AND ICLOUD-ENABLED APPS ARE NOT UPDATING ACROSS YOUR DEVICES. TO CONTINUE USING THESE ICLOUD SERVICES, YOU NEED TO UPGRADE YOUR ICLOUD STORAGE PLAN OR REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF STORAGE YOU ARE USING. UPGRADE TO 50 GB FOR 0,99 € PER MONTH THE ICLOUD TEAM”

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Badly framed photos, blurry, too dark, too light, fingers on the lens, pictures taken by accident. We want to give another look at all botched shots, and value them for what they are. Because they are all simply irresistible.

SLOW PHOTOGRAPHY MANIFEST 2019