Marina Berardi, Ph.D. candidate, University of Basilicata, Italy
ABSTRACT
This photo-essay is a reflection on in-game photography, which is a particular visual practice widespread
in the video game world, that helps us to re-read, and to then reconsider, our relationships with new forms
of visual representation in the increasingly porous contexts of online and offline life, of digital and analog
environments, of authenticity and inauthenticity. The images created in virtual and imagistic worlds force
us to reconsider the notion of body, of the presence of light in the scenarios, marked by new contingencies
and contexts in which the paradigm of truthfulness is definitively unhinged, leaving ample space for
emotional experiences as discourse and reflective narration.
KEYWORDS
In-game photography; virtual photography; open worlds; digital environments; digital ethnography.
