SCREENSHOT AS AN ART: AN AESTHETICS OF IN-GAME PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography has become an integral part of daily life for a huge part of the population with rising phenomena such as digital photography and social networks. In many ways, it is widely considered as an art. Creating still images with the camera plays a key role in numerous digital games as part of the narrative. Apart from being implemented in the digital games as the key element of the gameplay, it has also become an opportunity for players to explore open-world environments and create unique compositions of still images from their own perspective. In this paper we argue, that in-game photography could be seen as mixed media art, or even as a specific genre of photography.