Redacted

Redaction is the combining of multiple sources of information and altered slightly to make a single document. This censorship is applied to secretive government documents and sensitive information, but what happens when you censor an image? Take away the very structure and context that makes a photo its identity? You rob the audience of the experience of a photograph, replacing it with only pieces of a larger puzzle. What happens when you take away the iconography in famous photographs? They are no longer important, just remnants of what was a significant time and place, now recontextualised for something else, an afterthought or an unnoticed piece of subject matter. The audience doesn’t need to know what the image was, but they should see what they are actually trying to say.