BurnPics

BTS shooting a burnpic fail

BurnPic: Blue Face, excerpt

BurnPic: Mexico, excerpt

BurnPic: Subway Look, excerpt

BurnPics engages processes of destruction and reconstruction through a materially driven, time-based practice. Carefully produced photographic prints are subjected to burning and are filmed. The recorded footage is then reversed and slowed down, producing the visual effect of an image reconstituting itself—from dispersed ash to a fully restored photograph.

Through this reversal of entropy, BurnPics interrogates the assumed finality of destruction and the photographic medium’s claim to permanence. The work situates the photograph not as a stable document but as a fragile, mutable object, whose material vulnerability becomes central to its meaning. By staging an impossible reconstruction, the project foregrounds time, loss, and memory as active forces, inviting viewers to reflect on the tension between disappearance and persistence, and on the photograph’s capacity to both record and resist erasure.