Operational Imaging
ONGOING RESEARCH SERIES / IMAGE SYSTEMS / PRINTED MATTER / 2022—
Operational Imaging is an ongoing body of work examining how images function as tools, instructions, evidence, and systems rather than as representations alone. Developed through site-based observation, photography, diagrams, annotation, mapping, publishing, and bookmaking, the works translate encounters with infrastructures, routines, and spatial protocols into printed matter, visual interfaces, and installations. Coordinates, repeated forms, extracted details, and textual fragments are reorganised to expose the operational logic through which places are structured and interpreted. Moving between field observation and editorial construction, Operational Imaging considers how images record, classify, direct, and ritualise reality—and how acts of looking become embedded within systems of knowledge, belief, and control.
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