Speculative design · sketches & visualisation
Photo Mirror & Photo Machines
Devices that do not exist — and never could.
Photo Mirror is a device that does not and could never exist: it makes a photograph see from more than one direction. The plan was to build a 3D model, sample “photographs” and a website as convincing as a real lens maker’s — good enough to fool gadget lovers. In the age of Flickr and countless photo add-ons, I wanted to see how many people would want to buy it.
Photo Machines are steampunk devices pretending to be long-forgotten machines that “don’t work”, assembled from other old devices so the viewer wonders whether they ever existed. Machine 1 places white dots over people’s faces in front of the lens — powered, for example, by a steam engine.
