“Reimagining the camera” is one project in which I will trace the camera as ‘the tool in the image’. My two main questions are: How do different technologies such as web-applications and weblogs transform the role of the camera in the image event? Can the camera be reconfigured on the basis of the networked image?

To reimagine the camera allows me to work on the dualistic relation of tool and image. It enables me to move between the transformation of the image through tools and the reconfiguration of the tool departing from the new image.
I will compare images on the level of camera functionality, presence and general usage. Starting with classic photography such as press photo’s in which the presence of the camera and the recording of the image is hidden or invisible. Moving to camera phone imagery in which the camera plays a central role in the image event. Think of happy slapping images in which the presence of a (mobile phone) camera and its future networked live on You Tube is part of the violent act against a person. What is the significance of the camera being part of the image? How does it change the relation between the photographed subject and photographer?