Images you can read

"Imagine if descriptive metadata about each photo could be appended to the image on the fly—information about who is in each photo, what they're doing, and their environment could become incredibly useful in being able to search, filter, and cross-reference our photo collections."

Created by Matt Richardson, the Descriptive Camera is a regular photo camera which instead of producing an image, outputs a text description of the scene using Amazon's Mechanical Turk API. This is an interesting project that makes us think about what an image really is and how it works, exploring other ways to engage with its content. In my opinion, it triggers similar debates about narrative forms, content and meaning as in the case of a book when is made into a movie.

Images: mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera