Remote Sensing, 2015, archival inkjet prints face-mounted to plexiglass, 18 × 33 in.
As a medium in its infancy, photogrammetry recalls the beginnings of photography. Because movement is difficult to render, both early photography and photogrammetry often depict strangely unpopulated worlds. Louis Daguerre’s 1838 photograph of a Paris boulevard, for example, shows a deserted street interrupted only by a solitary, ghostly figure captured while standing still for a shoeshine. Almost two centuries later, photogrammetry still requires subjects to remain motionless as the photographer circles around them. Lone, faceless figures turn away from the viewer, gazing into unrendered space to evoke loneliness shaped by technology and mediated connection.