Some say digital photography is soulless art with its bitmaps of "zeros and ones" and it's computerized processing programs with gigabytes and t-bytes. It's irrefutable that the technology that takes images of the human brain, examines things invisible to the naked eye, provides instantaneous data, and saves lives is here to stay. As for art, film photography was blasphemy to the "true" artist when it first appeared on the scene, but became immortal through the lens of Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans and the like .
Photography has seen the dawning of a digital era where the traditional film darkroom with it's chemicals and archaic enlarger equipment has been replaced with an iMac loaded with Adobe Photoshop enabling uploading, editing and manipulation of images in a fraction of the time.
Art by definition is an ever-and-ongoing process of reinvention; it's the pursuit of what has not yet been determined. Art is the aura of life captured upon the work of the artist ever beckoning the human reflection; if digital photography captures things explored yet not yet discovered by the photographer, then maybe it capture a flicker of the being who took the picture and record the geography of the soul after all.
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