Wooldridge, D., 2020.

Tomorrow's headlines are today's fish and chip papers: Some thoughts on 'response-ability'

DW: In your 2003 essay 'Safety in numbness: some remarks on the problems of "late photography"', you wrote about how the contemporary photographic document had changed. It no longer attempted to capture some spectacular momentary instance (that social and technological function being passed to the moving image, television and now the streaming web). Instead photography was something 'late', emerging after the event. It recorded traces and signs, and engendered thought as well as sheer affect. Now, with many newspapers selling their original archive images, and some, including the Baltimore Sim and Chicago Tribune doing so online via eBay, could we say that methods of reception for photography have changed even further in the light of the accelerated web? Is our reception of photography different?.