Stain | Photo Exhibition

 

The greatest calamity that can befall analog film strikes in the very first instant: burning—the catastrophe that makes the photograph possible. The craft practiced by the photographer—with lens, shutter, and later, chemicals and photographic paper— is nothing but the fine-tuning of that burning. The photographer first burns, then washes away, extinguishes. The photographic act—especially in its canonical sense—is driven by the urge to declare certain moments as distinct, set apart from what comes before and after. Erkal Uran’s analog photography exhibition brings together the great disaster we all have been subjected to for a long time with the small catastrophe that touched the negatives.