(...) Photography's way of seeing allows us to talk about different types of speculation. That of the light reflected in the silver of the negative to form the first latent image, the first ghost, like images engraved in childhood. An image that is specular, like any other image in a mirror, an object that never exists in darkness. Speculation can also be reflection, using thought. Allthough it is not light that is reflected, clarity can still get through to illuminate what was in darkness before. That way lies knowledge.

Another type of speculation is to be found in all the arts and necessities of life, however basic these may be. (...)

© Cristina Pérez Andrés, 2002
Complete text in Photovision nº 31