What does it mean to capture something? The term ‘digital capture’ has made its way into common usage to describe the act of recording an image or video via digital technology, reflecting a faith in our technologies’ ability to accurately and impartially translate pieces of the world into something we can possess, carry around, archive, and share. In modern Western science, this metaphor of ‘capture’ has been central to practices of knowledge production; isolating and extracting knowledge from its real-world context, while obscuring the specific interpretative processes used to do this. In this chapter I’ll be exploring ‘photogrammetry’, a recent digital capture technology that enables the autonomous creation of ‘photo-realistic’ 3D representations of objects and landscapes from a set of images. Through an examination of the design decisions and representational aesthetic of photogrammetry, and its typical use in scientific research, I’ll show how the practice of this technology introduces an unacknowledged transformational process, discarding some aspects of the subject while focussing on and manipulating others. In doing so, this chapter argues that the resulting reconstructions are active cultural artefacts themselves, as forms of rhetoric, fiction, and relic of the world- view that produced them. DIGITAL CAPTURE: PHOTOGRAMMETRY AS RHETORIC, FICTION, AND RELIC Josh Harle, University of New South Wales