Finding letters in objects! | Photographic exercise

Photography and linguistics always go hand-in-hand for me, I really don't think that “a picture is worth a thousand words” accurately because behind an image there's more of thousand words. I mean, words and language itself, behind images, are the keys to find meanings during the whole photography experience; from thinking the photography, take it, see it after a while, to watch other photographies. Most of the time, unconsciensously, we are attributing meanings to the images, to the actions, to the life itself, isn't?

That's the reason I've enjoyed this photographic exercise, was a way for me to make this photo-linguistic relation more tangible; it consisted in looking for letters -or graphemes, in linguistic terms- in objects and things, ¿consciencious attribution of meanings to things? Oh yeah! And looking for letters! Something that is so constant and necessary in our lives – something trough witch I am expressing myself right now. Yes, yes!

In linguistic, specifically in phonetic and phonology, letters recive the name of graphemes and it defines as the graphic representations, minimum and dinstintives units that conforms alphabets. Are minimun units because graphemes can't be divided, the 'A' representation can't divided in less than itself. Are distintivies because they defines in opposition to their pairs; 'L' is not the same that 'B' and the combination with other graphemes create differentes words (and meanings): Low / Bow.

Graphemes notion is complementary to phonemes, that although its much more complex, can be defined as the idea we have of letters in terms of their sounds: are the minimun articulation of every sound -that is represented for a grapheme in the case of english- but are mental abstractions; even the sound have a quantifiable physical part -phons-, the phonemes are that abstraction that we make of every sound correspondent to a letter or grapheme, even when the phonunciation may vary.

As the graphems, phonemes are the minimun units of sounds, because can't be divided, they differ by opposition and are abstract, they aren't the sound, are the idea of sounds in our heads.

My phonetic and phonology notes.

I've wanted the search in my home, and focus in little objets. I've found 16 letters of the 26 that conforms the english alphabet -I speak spanish so I was thinking in spanish during the exercise, haha.

Do you recognize them?!

All photographs taken by me with a Samsung DV150F

Thank you!