ISBN 42e Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie

Now, we're a species of editors.
We all recycle, clip and cut remix and upload.
We can make images do anything. All we need is
an eye, a brain, a camera,
a phone, a laptop, a scanner, a point of view.
and when we're not editing, we're making.
We’re making more than ever
because our resources are limitless and
the possibilities endless.
we have an internet full of inspiration:
the profound, the beautiful, the disturbing,
the ridiculous, the trivial, the vernacular and the intimate.
we have next-to-nothing cameras that record the lightest ught, the darkest dark.
this technologicaplo tentialh as creativec onsequences.
it changes our sense of what it means to make. it results in
worh that feels lihe play,
work that turns old into new, elevates the banal.
work that has a past but feels
absolutely present.
we want to give this work a new status.
things will be different
from here on ...
Manifesto written by Clement Cheroux, Joan Fontcuberta,
Erik Kessels, Martin Parr and Joachim Schmid.