Technology of the past three decades has altered the way photographs are produced, distributed and received. Digitisation has paved way for a different way of image creation, where shots are set to share-friendly pixels, and meanings are collapsed and flagged with hash tags for instantaneous consumption.

Isa Lorenzo's latest show, 007: First Responder, is a riposte to this mode of picture making. The number is a count of the artist's solo shows. Her latest suite of photograms is a call to reevaluate how we regard a photograph today. Produced without a camera, this series reminds us back to what László Moholy-Nagy believed as the very essence of photography: light.

Here, a gathering of delicate images, sourced from various exhibition material, informational matter and historical book, takes on new roles for narratives on paper. Their unexpected juxtapositions - against each other and against the severe negative space - invokes ambiguous propositions left for the viewer to decipher.

From the tense stance of medieval knights ready to joust to the muscularity of the male body to the illuminating etchings of botanical specimens, these details - made salient by darkroom work - begs for a decelerated ingestion of the final image.

What they construct are images that are at once elegant and enigmatic. Yet at the same time they spark a return towards a mode of looking, where we pause and slow down to read the language the light has written, and once again experience photography in its original and most authentic form.

-Irwin Cruz

Image: © Isa Lorenzo, Silverlens