While it has traditionally been seen as a means of documenting an external reality or
expressing an internal feeling photography is now capable of actualizing never-existed pasts
and never-lived experiences. Thanks to the latest photographic technologies we can now take
photos in computer games interpolate them in extended reality platforms or synthesize them
via artificial intelligence. To account for the most recent shifts in conceptualizations of
photography this book proposes the term virtual photography as a binding theoretical framework
defined as a photography that retains the efficiency and function of real photography (made
with or without a camera) while manifesting these in an unfamiliar or noncustomary form.
