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!
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 5 – FORUM
Interdisciplinary pratice *Picture 1: Bogotá, Colombia, January 2011 with a Sony HX1. *Picture 2: Beijing, China, December 2010 with a Sony HX1. *Picture 3: São Paulo, Brazil, July 2011 with a Sony HX1. Since I was a little kid, I was passionate for journalism and documentaries in general. That is definitely one of reasons why…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 4 – FORUM 2
Practicing criticality At first glimpse I see these two images as war photojournalism portraits due their very specific contexts and time frames. They were taken in Afghanistan and display young girls coming from Taliban backgrounds. Considering their composition and aesthetic both have clear traces of western influence on how the subjects are arranged and the…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 4 – FORUM
Reading photographs Back in 2010 a creative newspaper and magazine advertising campaign for the UN refugee agency has won a prestigious Clio award in New York. The images would show apocalyptical photographic images featuring the message: “Refugees want the same problems as you have.” In this one, an African woman stands by a wash tub…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 3
Authorship and Collaboration Since I was a little kid, I was always passionate for photography. From playing with father’s old 35mm film camera to his early digicam’s from the late 90’s, I started trying to replicate images I would see on television or magazines. Travel photography and National Geographic content would amaze me and for…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 2 – MICRO PROJECT
Micro-project on collaboration As human beings that constantly interact with one another, nobody can deny being taught, inspired, or influenced by others. As creative people then we cannot deny that either intentionally or not, collaboration is somehow part of any attempt of expressing ourselves out to the world. Photographers are going to take pictures that…
Homero Aziz 