THIS CRITICAL RESEARCH JOURNAL HAS THE PURPOSE TO BE A SAFE HAVEN FOR ME TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS AND IDEAS AS I GROW AS A PHOTOGRAPHER DURING MY MA PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE ON FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY. WELCOME TO THIS JOURNEY!
MOST RECENT STORIES
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 8 – FORUM
Audiences and institutions Looking back to my edited pictures between 2012 and 2015 I clearly see that most of them abused of a stylistic effect common to that time: fading images to attempt a more vintage filmlike feeling. Probably my desire was to please the social media audience I had at the time as well…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 7
Now You See Me Moria, photography campaign for the major refugee in Lesbos, Greece. Words and pictures Following a traditional model of publishing photographs, I always shared my pictures accompanying them with details of the equipment I used and my exposure settings for that particular image. This sort of standard is widely used my photographers…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 7 – FORUM
Words and pictures No better photos captured the political tension and denounced the injustice in Brazil of fifty years ago than the historical black-and-white series made by the photojournalist Evandro Teixeira: “1968: A Passeata dos Cem Mil” [translation: The March of the 100 Thousand). The Portuguese text on the banner seen on the picture raised by some…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 4
*Monserrate, Bogotá, Colombia, January 2011 with a Sony HX1. Being visually literate means to be able to examine and speculate the meaning of visual content and to think and look critically on images. Regarding photography it is to be able to apply this principle on your personal reading on the photos you are consuming. I…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 5
Interdisciplinary Practice *Santos, Brazil, July 2011, with a Sony HX1. Film and music are two art and creative media forms that inspire me deeply on my photography. I am a cinema lover, from indie movies to Hollywood blockbusters and I watch them all. There is something so much attractive for me on the 16:9 bars…
Homero Aziz 