Wayfaring Through the Shallows
Photograph by Peter Eastway. Tripdytch. Print Size: 90x112 cm. Edition of 5.

As part of the exhibition process for No Place | No Time, held in Castello Ceconi in Italy, I wrote a series of notes to accompany the Artist Statement and thought they would make an interesting series of newsletter posts.  The accompanying print is a quick iPhone photo of the print on the wall at Castello Ceconi Art Gallery in Italy. 

How do you feel about modern technology?

Look at our world today and how large tech companies have convinced us that a camera merely records a moment and a photograph is something viewed on a tiny screen.

On the other hand, look at how technology has enabled us to record scenes and locations impossible with film cameras, how we can adjust and manipulate pixels without any limit other than our imagination. Even the tools we use to make prints are incredible, from the super-precise printers that place tiny drops of ink perfectly to the rich and colourful inks themselves.

Technology is not all bad, rather it's our choices about how we use them.

Unfortunately, many people, mainly the younger generations, don't seem to experience the value of photography as art. They are happy with the ephemeral experience provided on their phones and it is only by chance they discover another expanded view of what photography can be about.

Is this a problem? Should I worry about societal values I have no control over? Or perhaps I should gloat with intellectual glee about my greater understanding of the processes of photography and how they help me express my intentions, far removed from the influences of a faceless algorithm?

Or perhaps that algorithm is intentionally keeping me in the dark ages of physical objects and paper-based photography. Perhaps I am destined to be both a luddite and a dinosaur in a technological world that demands mindless adhesion to a highly flawed and hopelessly artificial intelligence.

At least with photographic prints you can accept and understand what you see. Some of the simple ways are still the best.

The No Place | No Time exhibition by Peter Eastway and Tony Hewitt opened 4 July 2026 and will remain open at Castello Ceconi in Italy until 31 October 2026. While there is access to the castle grounds at any time, to see the exhibition inside please check the times or make an appointment. You can see more on the Graphistudio website or here: https://graphistudio.myshopify.com/pages/no-place-no-time-exibition-opening