Light Brushing

Feb 2015 - Feb 2025

I am a photographer.

I affirm this each morning by pointing my camera at the window and taking a photograph, nothing more than this.

Since February 2015 (ongoing).

                                               
  #1260   #1434   #1004   #1517   #346   #1279 
A random selection of 6 windows sampled from 2660 photographs dating from Feb 2015
to Feb 2025.

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This website has been generated by a computer program residing in the cloud running

automatically every hour. For each run, between 1 and 6 images are selected. This

means that images can be expected to be displayed, on average, around once every

month. The code for this website has been open sourced.

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Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo Radiation August 6-15, 2010:1

Araki was receiving radiation treatment for cancer and every morning he “looked at the sky from where the bombs came”.

“Other people brush their teeth, I brush my eyes,”

he said.

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David Green and Joanna Lowry, 2003: 2

“Photographs… are not just indexical because light happened to be recorded in an instant on a piece of photosensitive film, but because, first and foremost, they were taken.

The very act of photography, as a kind of gesture,

which points to an event in the world, as a form of designation… is thus itself a form of indexicality.”

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An edition of 80 windows was exhibited as an analogue carousel slideshow projection at Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, London February 2016


  1. Araki, Nobuyoshi 荒木経惟 (2010), 東京ホーシャセン August 6-15, 2010 [Tokyo Radiation August 6-15, 2010], ウイズ出版↩︎

  2. Green, D. and Lowry, J. (2003), “From Presence to the Performative: Rethinking Photographic Indexicality” in Where is the Photograph?, Photoforum and Photoworks↩︎