Author: Ivan Dal Cin
Many years later, I find myself holding these grainy photos, the "poor images" defended by Hito Steyerl for their ability to diffuse and mutate. But these images are actually very private and were born poor: they haven't lost details along the way - they never had any. Thus, while I'm losing memories of those days, I realize that this meticulous recording of panoramas and streets is anything but lossless. Low fidelity is supposed to distance images from reality, yet the opposite is paradoxically true: the reality is that these poor images are faithful to my memories, which have fewer and fewer details, and to a selective memory that vividly retains only certain scenes while letting go of everything else.
