There is No Certainty: My Mind Tries in the Utmost Conjecture Photographs By Ameer Rifai Open Access

Rifai, Ameer (Spring 2023)

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This project began back in the 1990s with my father’s fascination with the newly released FUJIX DS-X, the first fully digital camera to be commercially sold. By photography moving digitally, my old man was able to take snapshots of his family when he visited Syria and the family he was building here in the United States. I took my family’s old, archived pictures (Kodak Moments) from the early 90s and rephotographed them under a microscope to develop my own images. The circles were created practically using the lenses and optics of my camera and microscope. Nothing was cropped, photoshopped, or manipulated in order to create the circles before you. It’s serendipitous actually, that the images I snuck out of my home in Indiana are from before my birth. So, in a way, these images are a reimagination of life before my own conception. 

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Personal Narrative…………….……………..……………..……………..……………..……...1

Literature Review…………….……………..……………..……………..……………..………7

 

 

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