The Invisible Photograph: Upcoming Episodes

Part 3, Premiering July 10: Extraterrestrial: The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project delves into an initiative to digitally recover the first photographs of the moon taken by a set of unmanned space probes in the 1960s. In an abandoned McDonald's on a NASA naval air station in Mountain View, CA, a team of techno-archaeologists has reconstructed the image data used to determine the landing sites for the Apollo missions of the 1970s. If not for this group of tenacious space industry professionals, this image data, stored on obsolete magnetic tapes, would have been lost forever.

Part 4, Premiering September 19: Subatomic: The European Center for Nuclear Research. At The European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, an international team of particle physicists has been using old-fashioned film emulsion to better understand the properties of anti-matter. See how and why one of the most basic photographic processes is being used to decode subatomic behavior at one of the world’s most advanced centers for technological innovation.

Part 5, Premiering December 11: Discarded: Joachim Schmid and the Anti-Museum.  Based in Berlin, German artist Joachim Schmid spent 15 years roaming city streets to retrieve photographs that have been discarded by their creators and users. He has since pieced together an anti-museum of over 400 images that would otherwise never have been seen and created a new context for their visual consumption. Paired with his newest work, dedicated to sifting through the visual detritus of the digital world, this video examines what happens when images consigned to the physical and virtual trash heap are given new life.

Image: David D'Agostino, production photo from the filming of Part 3: Extraterrestrial: The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project.