ABSTRACT
On 23 October 2004, British author, screenwriter and producer Charlie Brooker wrote a column on George W. Bush and the forthcoming US presidential election which concluded, “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley, Jr. – where are you now that we need you?”. Brooker later recalled the heavy criticism that had followed the article: Within minutes half the internet seemed convinced The Guardian was officially calling for assassination. The great Spanish photographer and thinker Joan Fontcuberta has been writing about how these devices have altered our way of seeing, remembering, taking and reading images for years. It is clear that photography is no longer only a case of “writing using light” exercised by a few select scribes but rather becomes a universal language which we all use instinctively in the twists and turns which life takes.
