In a 2015 interview with the Impossible Project (now Polaroid Originals), Joshua Sariñana, PhD, reflects on how his neuroscience expertise and photographic practice intersect to explore memory, identity, and the human experience.

In an interview with VICE Magazine, Joshua Sariñana, a neuroscientist and photographer, explores the intricate relationship between memory, perception, and photography.

My photograph Transition was featured in an iPhone TV commercial, part of Apple’s global campaign, showcasing the camera’s capabilities of the iPhone. The ad highlighted my image of a black-and-white composition of birds taking flight from a tree. Watch the Commercial

Photography, Memory, and the Future explores how photography serves as a bridge between memory and imagination, grounding the past while shaping our understanding of the future. It highlights the inaccuracies of human memory and the role of photographs as stable placeholders for recalling personal and collective histories. Discussing the brain's visual and memory systems, the lecture delves into the hippocampus's integration of space and time for episodic memory, emphasizing that individuals with memory deficits cannot imagine future scenarios without visual aids. Through examples from iconic photographs to neuroscientific insights, the lecture underscores the emotional, societal, and personal significance of photography in memory formation and its transformative potential for envisioning the future.