There is an online discourse on photography in the form of a blog entitled Still Searching that is hosted by Fotomuseum Wintherthur. The blog was launched in January 2012 and its blurb states that it:

aims to be a continually developing, growing and decidedly interactive Internet discourse on the medium of photography that features a multitude of participants; it is conceived as an online debate on forms of photographic production, techniques, applications, distribution strategies, contexts, theoretical foundations, ontology and perspectives on the medium. It explores photography’s role as a seminal visual medium of our time—as art, as a communication and information tool in the context of social media or photojournalism, and as a form of scientific or legal evidence.

Imperfections abound in contemporary photography:---it used to be known as snapshot photography associated with photographers such as William Klein and Nan Goldin. It has since broadened into lo-fi cool, and become very extensive in the form of an “anti-aesthetic”. Is this a reaction against realism? Or a reaction against the standardized (pre-programmed) perfection of DSLR digital photography in the name of individual creative expression?

Steiger notes that in:

contemporary exhibitions as well as photographs as they are used in everyday aesthetic applications, one notices that imperfection plays a key role. Far removed from the ideals of the Group f/64, New Objectivity, or even the Bechers and their school, to name a few positions, photographs that consciously employ technical errors have become common sense in photography. There are photographers who use deficient cameras; Lomography aficionados sell their photographs along with this type of camera in stores in major cities; snapshots are in demand, and blurriness is the aesthetic rule. Imperfection is the new ideal of contemporary photography, even if celebrated, staged, and represented in a kind of perfection.