Category: MY PHOTO JOURNEY

  • Why Critical Theory Matters to Me

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    I have become aware that a good deal of my teaching and research circles around the same question: who gets to decide what things mean? It appears in photography when we ask why some images seem natural, truthful or beautiful while others seem strange. It appears in psychology when we examine how people come to…

  • Why publish photobooks (and ‘zines)?

    Warning: Controversial Opinion I’m not entirely sure why people, other than students completing a degree course, want to publish photobooks. I understand that, when it is done genuinely, with consideration and an understanding of the subject(s), the act of curation is an important milestone in a long-form piece of work. However, a lot of photobooks…