This essay was published with slovenian magazine Fotografija For quoting, please, refer to the original. Fear of the unknown and eyes-wide open in photography Sandra Vitaljić's Infertile grounds in the context of other photographs of scaffolds Ana Peraica In a recent conversation with a philosopher Snježana Prijić – Samardžija I've learned on the fascinating, experiment. Results of the CT in which a woman was watching photographs and naming emotional states of people represented were greatly different from those she emitted and named when she given a male hormone of testosterone. From the experiment there are two conclusions possible; woman and man differently recognise emotional states, but also CT as a technology is capable of recording them, unrelated to any conscience or the will of a patient. From the latter the assumption that; if there is such a mechanical bond of the emotional depiction and photographs, photography may as well be capable of representing such states, is plausible. Still, aside a necessary and mechanical connection between reality and own image, in which both CT and photo-camera are similar, as physically continuous and mechanically necessary apparatuses, all further likenesses seem mere chances. Still, the theme of subconscious in photography’s theory appeared with the very beginning of modern psychoanalysis. The father of the discipline, Sigmund Freud, took the photographic process as a model of the relationship of conscience and sub conscience themselves, saying: „In order to form a picture of this vicissitude, let us assume that every mental process... exists, to begin with, in an unconscious stage or phase and that it is only from there that the process passes over into the conscious phase, just as a photographic picture begins as a negative and only becomes a picture after being formed into a positive. Not every negative, however, necessarily becomes a positive; nor is it necessary that every unconscious mental process should turn into a conscious one.“ 1 Walter Benjamin has developed this dichotomy 1 Continuing;“ This may be advantageously expressed by saying that an individual process belongs to begin with to the system of the unconscious and can then, in certain circumstances, pass over into the system of the conscious” Cf: Cadava, E. (1997). The Words of LIght: Theses on the Photography of History . Princeton, Princeton University Press. 105-106