I’ve been playing video games since I was eight-years-old, the first being a racing game on the Nintendo 64. The first game I played where there was an in-game photographic camera that you were supposed to use was in Pokemon Snap!
Since then, photographic tools and techniques can be found in a lot of different games. I mostly prefer open-world sandbox games where I can choose to play the game and engage with the narrative. Or I can intentionally wander off on different paths and explore the game world, discovering different places mundane and fantastical, exhilarating and everyday.
I use a similar approach as I do with any of my images - simple, shot straight on, pared down and pretty minimalist in composition. There’s very little trickery done and I typically stay within the technical confines of what the game provides me. No additionally mods or capture tools are used. I also try to use as little post-processing after retrieving the files and cataloguing them. Most of the processing is done using the in-game tools.
This is a collection or portfolio of in-game photographs that I’ve made over the past few years, primarily on Playstation 4 Pro using native Photo Modes or in-game cameras. These a photographs that I haven’t found another use for but that I really like, and that I really liked making.
So enjoy!
