A Matter of Chance explores the contemporary use of the photographic medium as a recording tool in support of scientific knowledge. In the age of screen culture, the volume investigates photography’s dual nature as both evidence and construction, examining the relationship between humans and their environment; their desire to control, measure and catalogue it, ultimately transforming it into a marketable product.

The book is modelled according to the logic of an atlas and combines different photographic registers, including views of buildings in Silicon Valley’s technology hubs and data centres, images of scientific experiments taken in laboratories or studios, alongside a body of scientific archival materials sourced online from governmental institutions, research agencies and educational establishments.

A Matter of Chance reveals the places where infrastructure and new communication networks are conceived and disseminated, those architectures that are both visible and invisible and which shape our perception of the world. The book invites us to contemplate a hybrid territory where nature and technology converge, and fascination, control and utopia intermingle.