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Photography Proposal
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Photography Proposal
Robyn Furtado
Pitch
Inspirational photographers and medias
-My idea is to give disposable cameras to a group of people, who are asked to take photos of their world as they view it, or experience it.
-Display in an interactive online format, which viewers could engage with
-Gallery space would encourage audience engagement.
First try
Groups of people contacted:
Miska Henner
Juliet Ferguson
Ken O'hara
Interactive photography sources
- In Brighton, asked people on the street to take a photo documenting that place, to see how it differed.
-People were all media-consumers (most had phones and SLR cameras)
-Their view was very different to mine.
- Homeless; street art, narrative documentary.
- Children in primary school; telescope gallery and mood board.
-Place (brighton) google maps based narrative.
Found imagery and the ideas about reality and creation of it.
-Also for found imagery and the idea of who owns representation.
-For style and objective documentary photographs of people.
http://googlemapsart.wordpress.com/
http://imaginarylandscape.fr/
The ethics of representation
The 100
-"Photography is never neutral". Is it possible to take a objective photo?
-Who owns the photo and the "reality" that is in the photo?
- If you take a photo, you are imposing social and cultural ideas on the subject- is this right?
-Sontag, Tagg, Barthes
-Also can bring in John Berger and the idea of a private/public photo.
What is an online interactive format?
100 people from around the world ages 1-100 write a short diary and take 26 photos with a dispoable camera.
-Displayed on a timeline, you are free to explore.
http://the100.thinkplaymake.co/
Inspirational photo projects
Theories and ideas linked to this
"Beautiful Horizons"
- An online documentary format, which allows a user to explore accounts and spaces and create their own narrative from content.
-Depending on group I end up with, the content will change- could be based on google maps, or a mood board etc
- Examples:
http://beta.18daysinegypt.com/#/explore
http://the100.thinkplaymake.co/
Online "new media" and its problems/successes
-Street children in Rio are given cameras to document themselves.
-these are in a gallery for all to see, and also given to the kids to hand out.
-Is new media and giving people the ability to represent themselves making a more democratic state? ("the Great Leveler")
-Foucault/Manovitch, and the fears of a control state online.
-Is giving people the space to show their representations and realities giving them power?