During the workshop dealing with information and fake news, I started looking for photographs whose truth and authenticity can not be questioned. I found spy satellite images taken during the Cold War, whose resolution on the surface of the earth is almost exactly the same as the resolution of today’s publicly available photographs taken by commercial satellites. In the project Keyhole, I use this strange coincidence to create a fictional story.
The photobook contains current satellite images which I transformed into black and white images with the help of computer post-processing, avoiding any other type of intervention. The created, almost completely ageless selection - which contains images of factories, railway stations, railway bridges and other infrastructural facilities important from a military point of view - easily makes the viewer believe that the pictures really comes from spy satellites from the 1960s. This effect is further strengthened by a cover story at the beginning of the book.With the help of the pseudo-document, I would like to point out how vulnerable the everyday media consumer actually is.
This photobook was created in the scope of the field work called True or false? - #information overload in the 21st century by Studio of Young Photographers. Coordinator: Tamás Don.
This photobook was created in the scope of the field work called True or false? - #information overload in the 21st century by Studio of Young Photographers. Coordinator: Tamás Don.
2021
Video of the photobook
Details of the photobook
Image from the KEYHOLE series (Eperjeske-Átrakó Station)
Image from the KEYHOLE series (Transmitter Solt)
Image from the KEYHOLE series (Mátra Power Plant)
Image from the KEYHOLE series (Kiskunlacháza Airport)
Images from the KEYHOLE series
Installation view on the exhibition 'True or false?
- #information overload in the 21st century', Foton Gallery, Budapest, 2021.