Traces Held in Bits

In the digital age, I often feel that photography is shaped—almost governed—by digital systems.
Functions designed from marketing data expand endlessly, and without noticing, we begin to see through decisions made by software rather than through our own perception.
I try to resist this by working manually, using neutral settings, and leaving the RAW data as untouched as possible.
Yet even then, I sense the presence of the digital in every image.
I began to wonder whether there might be a way to resist through the digital itself—
by using the subtle capacities that only humans notice, hidden deep within the data.
Within the smallest fragments of the RAW file,
in bits that have not yet been overwritten,
there remain faint traces of what once touched the sensor.
By expanding these minimal residues, I attempt to bring forward a presence that is usually overlooked—
a presence that exists quietly in the digital, waiting to be revealed.
This series is an attempt to amplify those nearly invisible traces
and allow them to emerge into view.