Tristan Zand

Tristan Zand (born 15 January 1971) is a San Francisco Bay Area / Swiss experimental photographer / videographer.
He worked for Swiss National Television in the nineties while training as a physician before becoming a photographer, and now experiments with the photographic medium including traditional analog but also software development.
Personal life
Zand was born in Atherton, California, of Swiss origins from the state of Bern's mountain town of Adelboden.
Career
His works in contemporary begun in the late eighties for various fanzines and included photography, collages, but also video experiments and mixed media, leading to his research on 'Matière Numérique' (Digital Matter in English).
During the 1990s, his work focused on experimental photography, mixing digital renderings with analog capture on film, but also street photography and concert photography.
His more notable projects include 'The Bootymachine' who included Internet-based image processing and publication software, a high-quality camera phone and can be viewed as a proof-of-concept of internet social photography apps to come. In this experimental work, photographs were taken by the phone's camera and reframed, digitally transformed to look similar to analog counterparts like lomo cameras, with digital artifacts, color and grain modifications to the original files to look more analog-like, and then uploaded to an online platform and published for social-sharing.
He is also viewed as one of the inventors of Dualphotography, a technique where both sides of a photographic plane are used to take pictures of a scene.
One of his later projects and still current project mixes online tools and publication, with specific photographic techniques to reveal the digital particularities of the digital photographic medium and is named 'Matière Numérique', it is fed onto an Instagram space dedicated to the recursive photographic process of zooming in a single black pixel, revealing the photographer's point of view as well as the inherent characteristics of the digital medium.
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