LibraryScenariosWhen self-documentation becomes self-alienation
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When self-documentation becomes self-alienation

I cannot stop photographing my hands lately and I do not understand why but they look like they belong to someone else

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated imaging of personal body parts creates psychological distance from physical identity and embodied experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Photography — seeing as practice?”

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