Getty images - Moving the World with Images

The ‘Getty Images Photographs: The Era of Records’ is a photo exhibition featuring 330 photographs and videos selected out of more than 400 million images and 12 million videos from the Getty Images collection of images from all over the world. It was planned to show the chronicles of mankind repeating numerous stories and incidents, and the solidarity of mankind sharing happy or sad events while hoping for a better tomorrow from the time photographs started to document the history of humanity.

 In order to express this meaning through the exhibition, the exhibition hall was designed with the theme ‘space indulgence’ against the setting of “Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenologie de la Perception’. Thus, ‘space indulgence’, space experienced by an audience in a retrospective way, is a spatialization of the thought that not only is the present time accompanied by the past but the time of the predictable future is not fixed but constantly changing due to relations. 

The audience faces two spaces when they enter the exhibition hall. The first space, space indulgence through ‘continuous perspective indulgence’, is a flow of the exhibition formed to allow the audience to search for their memories in the focused banquet of archived images held by Getty Images and the background of the images. In the other exhibition space, the ambiguity of space is presented so that the audience can face internal emotions within the images through visual experience by mixing the images and videos of decalcomania-like historical events with those of everyday life during the pandemic era. 

It was designed to make the audience imbibe the visual perception of the images to perceive past memories and the present, and the future to come.