Not Alone

Sverre Strandberg has created the book Not Alone, which contains license-free images from all over the world, downloaded from various digital image-sharing platforms. These images, often used as illustrations in content production, significantly impact how the world is visualized in media, despite their lower status as photographs. What makes an image generic, and what arises when sorting and assembling such imagery? How will the photographic medium be shaped as digital technology makes it even easier to share, recycle and create “reality”? During the festival, Strandberg’s book can be exchanged for a photo taken by the buyer. This encourages the further circulation of photographs in an eternal metamorphic loop.