1 Habitual Photography: Time, rhythm and temporalization in contemporary personal photography Martin Hand, Queen’s University, Canada. Ashley Scarlett, Alberta College of Art & Design, Canada Draft for publication in Tormey, J. Durden, M. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory. London: Routledge. Introduction In this chapter, we consider the ways in which developments in digitized personal photography alter our perceptions, understandings, and experiences of time. We explore several possible connections between the technical complexities of digital mediatization and the variety of practices that now incorporate some aspect of photography. We use the term ‘habitual photography’ simply, initially, to capture the observable pervasiveness of personal photography in time. Personal, family or domestic photography has always been bound up with habit of course, in the sense that it has been embedded within habitual ways of seeing, representing, and interpreting the social world (Bourdieu 1990). These tacit knowledges of ‘how to’ are constituted through historically situated socio-material relations, shaping the possible range of photographic practice and interpretation. More recently, Chun (2016) has argued that ‘new’ media become embedded in our lives through habit, such that they quickly become elements of an “unreflective spontaneity,” when “an action is so free that it anticipates and escapes the will or consciousness” (Chun 2016: 9). This reorientation of the habitual through complex forms of digital mediatization forms the context for our discussions of photographic technology and practice.