{"id":3984,"date":"2021-02-22T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:19:19","slug":"the-event-shaped-hole-and-the-photographic-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/the-event-shaped-hole-and-the-photographic-image\/3984","title":{"rendered":"The Event-Shaped Hole and the Photographic Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-family: EB+Garamond;font-size: 25px;text-align: center\"><em><strong>The Event-Shaped Hole and the Photographic Image<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-ee095044 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"#read\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">Read Here<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The-Event-Shaped-Hole-and-the-Photographic-Image.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" id=\"read\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The-Event-Shaped-Hole-and-the-Photographic-Image.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:843px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>&#8220;The image making and processing capacity happen continuously, just as respiration, or digestion does, The new image machines breathe, digest, dream and excrete pictures. they don&#8217;t just &#8216;take&#8217; them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">This essay introduces Raqs&#8217; concept of the &#8220;event-shaped hole,&#8221; suggesting that photographs can act as pieces of evidence, even when the events themselves are absent from direct view. The text reflects on the evolving nature of photography in the digital era and its impact on public perception and memory, examining the role of photographic images in documenting socio-political events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>Published in \u2018The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 30 No. 61-62: The Changing Ontology of the Image\u2019, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:150px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The image making and processing capacity happen continuously, just as respiration, or digestion does, The new image machines breathe, digest, dream and excrete pictures. they don&#8217;t just &#8216;take&#8217; them.&#8221; This essay introduces Raqs&#8217; concept of the &#8220;event-shaped hole,&#8221; suggesting that photographs can act as pieces of evidence, even when the events themselves are absent from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-texts","post_format-post-format-aside","missing-thumbnail"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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