The concept of "Manual Focus" is to present two differing visual perspectives of a particular issue. The first image is the perception of events or situations as presented by the mainstream media or the dominant power, whether it be political, corporate, or both. However, an alternate (some might say "real", but what is real?) perspective lurks within the image, out of focus. By clicking on the focus button, the dominant perspective blurs out of focus and the alternate perspective comes into focus.

Each image in the sequence is a complete image unto itself. Yet the collection of images in sequence form a whole greater than the parts that expresses ideas about information, perspective, perception, truth, spin, and media representation.

- Julian H. Scaff

digital arts institute