Abstract
The automatic or ‘instamatic’ camera gives us the means to record the scenes and events that attract our attention, including those with which we have no personal connection. Our desire to photograph something ‘out there’ is often the result of an intuitively recognised ‘resonance’ between the visual patterns in the scene and their symbolic or allegorical description of something we have repressed from conscious awareness. Like a flashbulb that suddenly illuminates a dark street and which reveals the goings-on in the shadows only when we get our pictures back from the lab, our snapshots have the power to bring to light the places within us we seldom see. This essay describes how even a simple camera can help us to discover the secrets we keep, even from ourselves, and to establish a dialogue with the unconscious dreaming mind: an invaluable source of wisdom and guidance in our search for meaning and self-acceptance.
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