Artist statement for "Camera Doesn't Lie" by EunjI Russ

Experimentation of colored images to study the “concept of colors” in photography.

The process of capturing a “color” then translating such to programmed color encoded in the meta program of a camera, complicates the production of a colored image.

The camera is an “apparatus” as Vilem Flusser claims; it’s a black-box that gives us immense power of possibilities in photographing, but still bounds us within it’s finite functions.

Taking upon this idea of regarding a camera as an apparatus, programmed with it’s sole responsibility of photographing, the result is limitless yet controlled. 

The patched images the camera ends up producing are still “images”. They are the states of things defined by a machine. 


Flusser Vilém. Towards a Philosophy of Photography. European Photography, 1984