On one hand, a photo makes everything it represents exist on a strictly ‘equal footing’. Form and ground, recto and verso, past…

“On one hand, a photo makes everything it represents exist on a strictly ‘equal footing’. Form and ground, recto and verso, past and future, foreground and distance, foreground and horizon, etc. — all this now exists fully outside horizontality-without-horizon. This ‘flattening’, this horizontality-without-horizon, is the contrary of a levelling of hierarchy and a fusion of differences: the suspension of differences proceeds here as a liberation and an exacerbation of ‘singularities’ and ‘materialities’.”

– Laruelle, François. The Concept of Non-Photography / Le Concept De Non-Photographie. Translated by Robin Mackay. Falmouth& New York, NY: Urbanomic& Sequence Press, 2011. (viacarvalhais)