Belief

`One of the central paradoxes of photography is that this medium, believed to be a direct technical transcription of reality (from the “pencil of nature” to the “emanation of the referent”), also has a special (symbolic, metaphoric) relation to the invisible and to those things that can only be verified by belief’ - David Levi Strauss, ‘La Mirada, and the Evidence of Things Not Seen’ (2009).