NOISE
### What is Photography? Photography is the process of capturing images on a memory-bearing medium through the interaction of light and a pinhole camera. But what if we create images using an anti-photography method—does that still count as photography? The Dim Light series explores this question by generating images in darkness, using the concept of lightless photography to rethink the essence of the photographic medium. Since its invention 180 years ago, photography has continuously evolved. The mediums for recording images have advanced from metal plates to film, from wet plates to dry plates, and now to digital sensors. The basic requirement for digital sensors to function is electrical power; they must be powered on to capture images. In this process, a digital camera is powered on, its lens cap is left on, and the shutter is pressed in a dark room to record the state of lightlessness. Technically, what happens is that the continuous flow of current through the sensor causes energy to accumulate, eventually leading to overheating and random signal overflow. This accumulated energy transforms into heat and random digital signals. Under varying conditions of time, sensitivity, and the camera’s computational mechanism, the characteristics of the sensor produce impressionistic, pointillist-style abstract photography.