A pale blue dot: Lecture about photography

One of the best-known photographs of our own planet was taken in 1990 by a space probe about to leave the solar system. The picture is grainy and dark and affected by reflective stripes from the sun in the optics of Voyager 1. But in one of these stripes we see a pale blue dot. This spot, this tiny grain of dust in a sunray, is the earth. In the photograph Pale Blue Dot our planet is reduced to a single data point, less than a pixel, the smallest theoretical resolution.

LitFestBergen’s house photographer, Eivind Senneset, takes the audience with him on a story of how photography in varying scale and detail has influenced our view of the world and allowed us to see ourselves from outside – sometimes from a very long distance.

The event will be in Norwegian.