Glitches

One of the ways of degrading an image is through editing the code of the file and creating glitch art. These images are unpredictable and give a genuine sense of something going wrong as it is often unwanted and unexpected when we come across images that look like these do. Because of this I think these images are particularly successful in conveying the breakdown of memory.

There is also the contradiction of the time the story is set (and the era the photos were taken) and the very obviously modern and digital effects that have been applied. This adds to the confusion the images create. 

In the image above I especially like just how unclear the original photo is. I think my experiments have been most successful when there is just a glimpse of the original, and the rest is distorted or covered. All together they give lots of  hints towards the tangible reality of a photo, but what they add up to is still unclear - like a series of scenes in a film that give an overall impression of the place or atmosphere, but leave the story open to interpretation.