Kiss My | Camera V025

Kiss My Camera v025 challenges the ownership of the image. Who owns a photograph—the person who pressed the shutter, or the person who left their DNA on the glass? It is messy, metaphorical, and impossible to look away from.

Rating: 4.5/5 Lipstick Stains

The project is currently traveling as a live installation. Viewers are not passive; at the end of the exhibit, there is a "Kiss Booth" featuring a sacrificial DSLR. Attendees are invited to apply a provided tube of crimson wax and leave their own print for version 026. kiss my camera v025

Warning: The lens does not wipe clean between guests. That is the point.

Previous versions focused on the mark left behind. Version 025 changes the game by focusing on the moment before the kiss. Kiss My Camera v025 challenges the ownership of the image

Using a high-speed capture sensor triggered by proximity, v025 records the micro-expressions of hesitation:

The Kiss My Camera v025 Manifesto (Excerpt): The project is currently traveling as a live installation

"You have spent years looking through glass. Now, press against it. Leave a stain. The photograph is no longer a window; it is a handkerchief. Catch my ghost in the lipstick."