by Anne Geene
2026

Punctum, a Latin word with multiple meanings, including point, dot, hole or prick. In the famous book, Camera Lucida  (La Chambre Claire,1980), the author, Roland Barthes, uses punctum in the latter sense; to describe the sensation that he experiences as a viewer when looking at certain photographs. These are precisely the photographs that move him, that make an impression to him, that prick him… read more