Hazel May Eckert investigates how images are experienced. Her Soft Focus series (2019) is a collection of photographs taken from her iPhone in phases of signal disruption: people, places, and fragmentary moments in time captured as “failed”, frozen, partially-rendered and blurry. While commonly experienced as frustrating, Eckert rather considers the beauty in these mis-translated images and how cell phones and other digital technologies become unique collaborators in the documentation of our personal histories.