Photography, Perception, and Time
Singapore · Technology Museum
Photography is an aesthetic practice, a technological development, and a form of theoretical reflection at the same time.
Photography Tenckhoff
Between light, space, and memory, Photography Tenckhoff forms a bridge from the analog to the digital world. What begins as an artistic gaze on nature, travel, and culture unfolds into a long-term engagement with image, perception, and time.
Classical photographic techniques such as HDR, color key, and long exposure are combined with experimental approaches including infrared Photography, and Holography. This creates a coherent body of work that does not merely document photography, but reflects it as both an aesthetic and a technical practice.
The long-term archiving of selected works via IPFS and blockchain technologies opens new ways of preservation, authenticity, and visibility for photographic works—beyond the ephemerality of conventional digital platforms.
In Focus – Culture and Thinking in Images
Current contributions explore how an expanded understanding of perception, time, and relationship influences photographic practice. Photography is not understood merely as representation, but as an active process of seeing—as painting with light under altered conditions of thought.
Alongside travel, observations of nature, and cultural encounters, photographic works emerge that investigate new image spaces and AI-assisted imaging processes.
The focus lies less on definitive answers than on visual questions: How do images change when perception is understood not as given, but as relational? And how can this new territory of thinking in images be made visible?
From the Journal
New Territories of Photographic Thinking
Photography can be more than representation, technique, or style. In this section, it is approached as a form of thinking—a way of exploring perception, relation, and meaning through images. The contributions gathered here deliberately move beyond established categories. They do not seek definitive results, but underlying conditions: How does meaning emerge in images? How does seeing change when perception is understood as relational rather than given? These texts mark exploratory movements. They open new territories of photographic thinking in which theory, practice, and experience intersect—without explaining or replacing one another.
A systematic theoretical elaboration of this relational perspective can be found in the framework of Quantum Monads: Applications in Physics, AI and Society .
Photography and the Digital Heritage
Photography preserves perception beyond the moment. Within Photography Tenckhoff, photographic works are not only created, but also secured, contextualized, and carried forward over time. Digital storage structures and AI-assisted methods open new ways of making photographic collections visible and accessible as part of a digital heritage.
Transitions of Light
Traces of Time
Light Compression
Expanded Image Spaces and Perception
Beyond everyday seeing, photographic image spaces emerge in which perception is renegotiated. Experimental approaches such as infrared photography, holography, and deliberate color interventions expand photographic vision and make visible that images are not given, but constructed.
Invisible Light
Space and Projection
Color as Meaning
Digital Image Spaces, Value, and Responsibility
Digital image spaces give rise to new forms of authorship, value creation, and deception. Artificial intelligence, NFTs, and fraudulent structures reveal how closely creative potential and ethical challenges are intertwined in the handling of images.
Image and Algorithm
Authenticity and Value
Deception | Manipulation
Karin’s Travel Journals
To deepen our understanding, we draw—alongside digital archives—on an analog source of particular depth: Karin’s travel journals, which she has kept continuously since the 1970s. They provide the temporal and narrative context for many photographic projects, allowing them to be understood in their full continuity.
The journals are complemented by carefully collected admission tickets, flyers, and passes—small time capsules that anchor journeys and encounters in place and time, keeping history vividly alive.
Karin's Reiseberichte
Photography as an Open Image Space
Classical photographic works are combined here with new forms of digital presentation. Virtual galleries extend the photographic space and open up possibilities to experience images not only as objects of viewing, but as spatial encounters—between art, technology, and contemporary visual culture.
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