Triggered!: Satoshi Fujiwara
Untitled (Code Unknown II), 2014 © Satoshi Fujiwara
It was taken at 12:37 p.m on September 10, 2014, a couple of years after relocating to Berlin where I started working as a photographer. Since the beginning, I’ve had a strong interest in the various fuzzy boundaries in relentlessly reproducible contemporary imagery. To focus on portraiture, the right of likeness is something that has long-troubled photography since the invention of the camera. Today, with the rise of social media, we have become even more acutely aware of photographs and those who appear in them when they are posted on digital media. With furthering technological developments in digital photography, it will be even more difficult to make legal judgments in cases involving the right of likeness. I won't mention anything about this specific subject. How she/he actually looked like, so-called ’fact’ or ‘background’, and so on except for the date photographed which is visible in the data. Because only the image that is detached from the ‘original’ context allows the viewer to be read with subjective interpretation.
