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Collaboration and Professional Locations: Topic 4
Engaging the Audience “Vivian Maier: Anthology” is one of many curations of Vivian Maier photographers, the secretive nanny with a camera. But this one reveal more deeply her enormous archive that ranges from street scenes to clandestinely shot portraits, sculptural closeups of torsos and fabrics to knowingly conceptual self-portraits. This exhibition explores the arc of her…
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Collaboration in Practice – TOPIC 4 – FORUM
Engaging the Audience Between 19th of July 2022 and February 12, 2023, the Museum of Tomorrow (“Museu do Amanhã”) in São Paulo, Mauá, Brazil, received the exhibition “Amazônia” (“Amazon”) from Sebastião Salgado. Idealized by Lélia Wanick Salgado, it displayed 194 pictures taken by Salgado between 2013 and 2019 and is the result of the couple’s immersion in the region…
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Collaboration in Practice – TOPIC 2 – FORUM
Re-worked family archive photograph. © Rich Wiles and Ruba al-Hindawi’s family. Archive and Authorship Exhibition “In which language do we dream”. What is the archive they have used? Rich Wiles is a documentary photographer who lived and worked for seven years in a refugee camp in Palestine, before returning to the North of England with…
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Collaboration in Practice – TOPIC 1 – FORUM
Collabor/action Maroussia Prignot and Valerio Alvarez are a great source of inspiration for my work in regard to collaboration. On their “Here, waiting” project, they partnered with a reception center for asylum seekers in Belgium. After taking all pictures of the people living there, they would invite each person to intervene on their printed portraits…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 11 – FORUM
Mohammed and his grandson. When asked what was his most precious ‘belonging’ after fleeing from Iraq to Jordan, Mohammed said it was his grandson, born in the exile. When we discussed how he would like to be remembered and his picture taken, Mohammed asked to do it with the child on his lap. After photography…
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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 