David Bate has long worked with photographic images to explore identity and otherness, and their relationship to technology, memory, domestic objects and public space.

'Discovery of Time' is from a suite of images concerned with memory and technology in contemporary culture. Faced with an increasingly automated technological world (mondialization) the works focus on the temporality of images and images of temporality, whether it is of the migrant, the citizen, the spectator, or any other given social identity.
The images become an imagined space for the identification of technological mediation.