hesh hipp

heshhipp.com / @heshphoto

the future is always unknown. actions may have intentions but consequences remain uncertain. so... what if this time... it really is the beginning of the end? Societies really do collapse, empires crumble, and many species have, in fact, gone extinct.

In this ongoing series, "Accidental Intentions / Intentional Accidents", hesh hipp creates deliberate "mistakes", transforming his original photographs - scenes of mundane everyday activities - into wild geometric arrangements of pixelated colors and distortion, evoking mystery and referencing the possible corruption of all information. Existing somewhere on the massive continuum between a ruined project due to digital storage errors and the inadvertent extinction of all life on earth, these images ask us to imagine the unintended consequences of societal behavior: continued adherence to the perpetual growth model despite near universal understanding of it's unsustainability; wildly out of balance power and profits stemming from popularity, distraction, and deception; an accelerated reliance on digital "intelligence" despite a limited understanding of it's actual nature - these are "glitches" of convenience, mistakes of misinformation, problems of progress.