Now LookAfter a long conversation with a Pakistani refugee spending his time in Vienna, Austria without being able to leave (his brother, by the way, is a refugee in Australia), this very first post in my Über-Blog sure seems quite irrelevant. Nonetheless, this conversation only alerted my once more to the importance to becoming aware of the moment and not deferring life.
Thinking about the ephemeral nature of the experiences we can hold on in our memories - aided by images, smells or sounds - I would like to slow you in your rapid consumption of online material and ask you to enter into the construct of a photographic image with me. Look at an image and notice the many layers of information contained in and around it. Which information reaches you first? What clue can you extract from the image to understand it? How can you infer other details from the visual representations in the picture? When do you notice the composition without looking for a meaning? What thoughts does the photograph provoke? Within the feeling of safety and comfort of this thought experiment, take a long moment and think about how you look at photographs! Now, please share your thoughts! And images...
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6/16/2015 07:55:16 pm
With the onslaught of Facebook and Instagram images are thrust upon the canvas at a whim. Just for the sake of feeling important or getting much needed attention, individuals crowd the airwaves with hoards of photographs, some very good, most lacking but common place. They have no real value because of the constant barrage.
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6/20/2015 04:10:57 pm
First of all you look great in the photo. Those blue eyes so full of life have not changed in all these years, one would think that the flame of wonder would have been dampened by time, but not in this image, at that moment. However as full of life as you look, I am glad to see you took the guy in red to the arctic with you, he seems to know what he is doing or at least he has the right gear. Do you share the orange tent with him? So many questions and yet I now know much more about your trip as I had only heard about it over the phone.
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About the AuthorHello, I'm Elisabeth Stephan. Apart from being a photographer & many-media artist, and chef, I'm also a PhD student. Currently I'm working on my dissertation on photography as visual communication in social media. About this BlogThis blog serves as an interactive platform for my research project seeking to investigate the influence of scientific discoveries and technological innovations on self-perception and artistic production. I encourage lively posting of commentary as it forms an integral part of my research.
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