ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the idea of photography as an instance of world-making to argue that a non-human, transversal, and queer kind of love is always involved in the practices of producing, editing, using, displaying, and distributing photographic images. Photography, which developed without any knowledge of quantum physics, has not yet fully realized the potential that comes from the queer nature of its photonic dimension, nor has photographic theory, at least not until recently, fully taken it into account. Digital photography has further problematized photography's ideological alignments with realism and humanism. 'Tender' in the sense of touchy or sensitive entails the notion of exposure. As an ethical project, becoming-photographic is becoming radically receptive to non-human/human touch. Finally, to become photographic is to begin to live in a world realizing itself as consisting of indeterminate material flows of sensory data or sensed and produced intensities that get assembled into perceived, self-sensed entities, always in touch with the universe.
