Writings Archive - Stephen Mayes

The New Colonialism of the Digital Image
The emergence of the digital economy might appear to be a matter of secondary significance, just another incidental inflection in the history of our lives. But a closer look reveals a tectonic repositioning of our culture and the economy redefining the social, cultural, and epistemic ground on which we stand.
October 10th, 2022Stephen Mayes
Photography is dead – Long Live The Image
It is no longer possible to understand the modern digital image using only the reference points that we once applied to analogue photography. We are looking at something very different and we need to see through the seductive similarity to the photograph.
September 23rd, 2020Stephen Mayes
Truth, The First Casualty
Conflict photography considered as bellwether for the dawning understanding of digital imagery as a new medium
September 21st, 2018Stephen Mayes
Everyday Tomorrow
New technologies are bringing new ways to look at the world
November 5th, 2017Stephen Mayes
Positive Lives
Responses to HIV & AIDS 1993 ~ 2018: Memory is not at issue. Rather it is our innate psychology that we all carry within us that will cause this and other catastrophes to repeat, and against which we must maintain permanent personal vigilance.
August 21st, 2017Stephen Mayes
The Next Revolution In Photography
Just as there’s a time to stop talking about girls and boys and to talk instead about women and men so it is with photography; something has changed so radically that we need to talk about it differently, think of it differently and approach it differently.
August 24th, 2015Stephen Mayes
Toward A New Documentary Expression
The role of the ancient storyteller wasn’t to relay facts but to impart greater truths: archetypes, emotions, political structures, and the nature of human experience. It’s only recently that we’ve conflated storytelling and factual reporting
January 10th, 2014Stephen Mayes
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