@hidden if you ever wondered why digital movies look better than shot with film

Digital photography captures the traces of light coming from the objects into data. The digital photograph is a data of light. The light is memorized in the camera with no need of a darkroom. The analogue medium, by contrast, transforms the rays of light into a negative, that is, into a reversed image. Analogue warps light. It is neither bright nor dark. Analogue interrupts the light of life. The analogue medium interrupts the natural relation in which the object is connected to photography via the light. 'Digital' is something that is precise. Data is digitized light through our fingers. The rays of light coming from an object are preserved in clear data. There is, by contrast, no similarity between light and its reflected negative. The analogue medium *translates* light onto paper. In this process, the light is lost. In analogue photography, mathematics gives way to alchemy. It disenchants photography.