A note on why digital and why technology for a project on Paris

When I first began this project I thought I might be shooting in film. Once I realized that the thing getting to me the most in my picture taking was the conflict between old and new, historical and imaginative, restoration and progress, I realized that I wanted to use a digital medium to further exploit the tension I was feeling. To shoot digital images in sepia or black and white tones of things that are from a place in history shows my perception of this conflict. I wanted to investigate how time and place feel different when they are shown in a digital medium on the Internet. Access is suddenly granted to all, and there is no actual material for my study of space, time, and perception. This makes the project seem even more like clues in a detective case for me since they begin to be archived inside the computer. They gain the chance to be seen by more people, but they lose the feeling of progress, at least in the material sense. I feel that way about a lot of the images that mesh together in Paris and I wanted to portray this in my work.