Algorithmic Photography at Alianza Francesa de San Salvador

Alex May was invited to present a selection from Algorithmic Photography at Alianza Francesa de San Salvador as part of the month-long photography programme La fotografia, lenguaje infinito: atisbos de un futuro - Vol. 2. The presentation brought the work to audiences in El Salvador and was accompanied by an interview about the series, its methods, and the wider ideas behind the project.

The exhibition focused on a body of work that uses custom software to recombine thousands of video frames into single images, making duration visible rather than freezing one instant. In this context, the series was introduced not simply as a technical process but as a way of thinking about perception, memory, and the changing role of photography in a computational culture.

That combination of exhibition and interview mattered because it gave space for both the images and the ideas behind them. For May, Algorithmic Photography is part of a wider practice concerned with how digital systems shape what we notice, what we keep, and how time is translated into form. The San Salvador presentation extended those questions into a new international context while making the process legible to a broader public audience.