Dear sirs, dear ladies,

Allow me to introduce you to a remarkable experiment in which the wonders of modern technology blend with the ancient art of photography, bridging two centuries of human ingenuity in one masterful gesture.

Just imagine: an ultra-modern device, the iPhone, mediating the creation of a photographic image using the silver process, a chemical technique that once represented the pinnacle of scientific achievement. This method, based on the latest discoveries in the science, exploits the enchantment of light-sensitive silver salts, a mastery perfected by Messrs Daguerre and Talbot to capture fleeting moments.

Traditionally, this process reveals a latent image using chemical baths, transforming light into a tangible imprint. Here, however, a contemporary device, intrinsically immaterial, fits perfectly into this alchemical sequence. The iPhone, whose digital sensor is a lumino-electrical marvel, transforms the light rays it captures into electrical signals, encoded in binary form (a series of zeros and ones) to display a visible image on its luminous screen.

But in this experiment, the iPhone is not an end point, it's a means, a modern-day magic lantern. Its screen projects a luminous scene, be it a landscape, a portrait or any other representation, directly onto the light-sensitive silver paper. Thanks to this process, an image, initially captured and transformed by digital algorithms, can be materialised on a medium governed by the immutable laws of optics and chemistry, giving rise to an authentic and timeless photograph.

Nicéphore Jobs, 2025 march the 7th, from France where photography began