Materia et Lumen

Materia et Lumen Publishing and printing authentic photographs. We offer photographers one technical, semantic, and ethical reference: The Materia et Lumen Criterion.

Have you ever thought what's behind a digital image?
07/19/2018

Have you ever thought what's behind a digital image?

“Dad, what is a photographer?” My daughter's question forced me to confront one widespread misconception. Photography wa...
06/25/2016

“Dad, what is a photographer?” My daughter's question forced me to confront one widespread misconception. Photography was born when inventors succeeded in permanently recording the interaction between light and matter; so why does almost everyone in the arts, publishing industry, and education community call a numeric code designed for mutation, a photograph? In The Photographer's Choice I present my answer to this question and to my daughter's.

Authentic photographs are forever. Authentic photographs cannot be retouched. How can you retouch what light, silver, an...
06/23/2016

Authentic photographs are forever. Authentic photographs cannot be retouched. How can you retouch what light, silver, and human experience had sealed? Retouching is an illusion; what is real is the pact between deceitful publishers and gullible spectators. Then the right question is, Why do we enjoy manipulating and being manipulated?

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