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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…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 2 – FORUM
An admirer of Sebastião Salgado One of the photographers I admire the most is Sebastião Salgado. Being a Brazilian like him I was always inspired by his practice. In the photographic method of Salgado, we rarely see posed photographs. Usually, people are displayed performing some kind of activity that quite often are registered in the…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 2
Methods and meaning To be able to evaluate my photography I have to consciously look what drives my life as a whole and religion is one of my core values. I am Baptist minister that through the years specialized as a social worker and community developer working in poor and restricted Christian communities around the…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 2 – FORUM
Cycles of ilusions Photography as a means of artistic expression can be applied through so many different ways. A photographic ‘faux pas’ or what we would traditionally think of as a ‘mistake’ can contain so much meaning once we start being more critical and analytical. Sometimes a ‘happy accident’ can speak to us deeply and…
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POSITIONS AND PRATICE – TOPIC 1
Mirrors and windows This a house at the entrance of Bartella, Mosul, Iraq, on August 2017, after the village was liberated from ISIS forces. Until the terrorist’s invasion, the village was populated by a minority Assyrian Christian community. When they arrived, houses were marked with the letter “N”, as it can be show on the…
Homero Aziz 