The very last analogue UK TV broadcast occurred in the early hours of 24 October 2012, completing a process known as the “digital switchover.” Photographer Tommy Goguely (b. 1984), who lives and works between Paris and Bordeaux, is interested in this cultural shift and how media becomes visible via malfunctions or disturbances. “When listening to music, the medium itself becomes perceptible through radio interference, the crackling of dust on a vinyl record, or scratches on a CD,” he observes. Digigrams highlights the materiality of digital photography. Here, the artist damages camera sensors through scratching and drilling. The subsequent pictures are abstractions that record traces of destruction. Some resemble the famous colour field paintings of Mark Rothko, whilst others criss-cross like plaid fabric. Bright hues smear and glitch across the frame, or dissolve into speckles and noise – like a television screen struggling to tune into focus. tommygoguely.com | @tommygoguely
All images: Tommy Goguely, from Digigrams (2023-Present). Image courtesy of the artist.
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