K: Well, I like what you said that a lot of people use the camera as a way of “being-in-the-world” but in my mind, the theme is a reminder to look beyond yourself… like, there’s a whole world out there, don’t lose perspective. “Photography” has quickly become its own topic,… Continue reading
Matt Johnston‘s great, subject-focused assignment from the excellent Photographer’s Playbook:
How do you take pictures of somebody in a way that brings them to the table instead of putting them on the menu? – Sharita Towne in conversation about Our City in Stereo with Gemma-Rose Turnbull, NE Killingsworth Street, Portland, Oregon 11 July 2016
“Sam Cotter’s pocket-sized publication “Reciprocity – a failure to communicate” investigates photographic reciprocity failure, a technical term in photography for the instances in which photographic materials stops behaving in a linear way. In these situations the medium has a kind of autonomy and requires more from a scene than is… Continue reading
Audience/participants reading the 4-page PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL PRACTICE broadsheet, a PDF of which can be found here. Today we (Pete Brook, Eliza Gregory, Gemma-Rose Turnbull, Mark Strandquist and Wendy Ewald) had the Photo-Based Social Practice panel, a discussion of socially engaged, transdisciplinary, and expanded practices in contemporary photography at Aperture Foundation in New York for Open Engagement. As… Continue reading
“As it becomes increasingly more common for Documentary Photographers to integrate participatory and collaborative practices into their photographic projects, inviting people who were previously ‘subjects’ to become co-creators, there is also an increased tension between the collaborative process and the photographic product. When we move towards making work that is… Continue reading