PHO702, Informing Contexts

Week 10+11: What is art? Who buys it? What determines its value?

This week we have been discussing consumption of art and spaces that are designated for this very purpose, spaces that identify what art...

Week 9+10: Challenging the Gaze, Part 2

In the last post I shared and discussed my new body of work which aims to challenge the viewer’s gaze. In the new body of work I question...

Week 7+8: Challenging the Gaze, Part 1

In my last article I discussed gaze in photography and mentioned a few artists who had explored gaze in their practice. I also shared a...

Week 5+6: Gazing, Nudity and Fantasy

This week we were discussing gazing at photographs. There are a few directions which I could take when talking about gaze, but because my...

Week 4: Reading of Constructed Photographs

In my previous article I discussed constructed photography. There is an industry which commonly uses constructed images to sell products...

Week 3: Constructed and 'Straight' Photography

In my last article I discussed the truthfulness of photographic images and again compared photography to painting. I mentioned that...

Week 2: Truthfulness in Photography

The topic of this week is questioning the truthfulness of a photograph. Since its invention, photography has been recognized for being an...

Week 1: What is Worth Recording, part 2

This is a follow-up article to my previous one 'What is Worth Recording, Part 1' where I discussed why some photographers (inlcuding me)...

Week 1: What is Worth Recording, part 1

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision...