The gap between real and unreal, history and memory, is examined in the unusual and clever uses of digital technology in photography. A red brick wall is in the background. Ut, captured a girl running from her village in Vietnam after a napalm attack. The 1972 shot of Phan Thi Kim Phuc earned Ut a Pulitzer Prize and thrust the burned, screaming youngster into photographic history. But all that remains in Haddock's rendition is a desolate road with a hazy gray sky looming in the background.
Shadows mark where the youngster once figured in the photo.
Rinder says that van Lamsweerde and Haddock are using the same technology but in very different ways. Van Lamsweerde uses digital technology to completely mask the process of erasure - so the resulting retouched photo appears to be the original. He breaks the item down into thousands of parts and brings it back together in a novel way, revealing a new understanding of it. Each one of the picture's squares represents a frame of the film. Salavon took each frame, averaged it for its predominant color and made the frame that color.