The Man And The Machine exhibition has selected images from Far Features’ Eszter Papp to be exhibited at the Millepiani gallery in Rome November 10-18. 

Images were selected from 1,478 submitted entries for the exhibition.  

Eszter figured out a way to connect with people around the world and shoot them via live webcam. 

She manipulated the images through layers and colours echoing a sense of distorted reality the viewer and the subject have formed under isolation. Using this new way of making images, Eszter was able to make portraits of subjects in Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, UK and USA.

THE MAN AND THE MACHINE EXHIBITION 

Since the first complex and automated technological inventions (starting from the experimental science of the sixteenth century up to the current electronic and digital machines) the relationship between man and machine has characterised every evolutionary development of civilisation.

Each new invention indelibly marks not only the course of technical development, but also the same vision of the world of man. A distinctive sign in the man-machine relationship is precisely the determined will of the individual and his mental structure to accept the instant modification of his habits by virtue of a new technological discovery.

Today the dependence on intelligent machines is made manifest in every field concerning human activity. Especially since the 19th century, art has represented an important cultural field through which we may reflect on the relationship between man and machine, starting from the futurist experiences in the pictorial field, passing through the film productions of Fritz Lang with Metropolis and Ridley Scott with Blade Runner, up to the contemporary images of Thomas Struth in the photographic field. This exhibition invited photographers and visual designers to propose works capable of offering a vision of the current historical and social context and responding to the theme of the relationship between man and machine. 

Exhibition by @Loosenart Exhibition details here
Eszter’s projects here