For over a decade, Sophie Huguenot observed the presentation and production of daily news at RTS Info (Swiss public radio and television). She deliberately chose a large-format camera, a tool designed for meticulous work and a slower approach—contrasting with the fast-paced nature of news media. Her focus shifted to the backstage of the television studio, the hidden spaces within production structures, and the routine aspects of daily work.

Television.photo extends this approach by offering a nonlinear and dynamic navigation experience. Through a play of reframing, zooming, and unzooming, the experience echoes the off-camera aspects of a television set, allowing users to isolate specific elements within a single image.

Visitors can interact by clicking on a photograph to break it down into multiple parts, highlighting certain details while temporarily removing everything in between. An object, a face, a color, or a texture can thus be brought to the forefront. Each reframed image becomes a gateway to other visually or thematically connected fragments. By selecting one of these fragments, users can reconstruct the original image through an unzooming effect.

To make this interactive experience possible, we developed a custom CMS (Content Management System). This allowed the artist-photographer to manually (or automatically) select and crop key sections of each image, creating strong visual connections between the fragments.