Week 3 Strategies of Sharing
This week’s presentations focused on the collaborative ideas of photography, whether it’s a participatory, collective or cooperative method that we include in our current practice. I found the presentations quite interesting especially with crowdsourcing, these could open up your practice to endless possibilities and outcomes. I enjoyed the work by Taylor Jones, Dear Photograph it is good example of using participates photos and then rephotographing them in situ. However I did struggle to relate to some of the presentations to my practice, maybe I haven’t fully understood the participatory side of things.
For my current practice I have a similar intent to Queens University Belfast and their Living Legacies programme, so we have shared resources. They have informed my practice in the importance of preservation and ways to capture a photographic survey, the inclusion of GPS etc. Which I have taken onboard. In return I have supplied my images for the use on their website, but I have kept images for myself and my platform. I have worked with a number of historians, they have been very knowledgeable with certain areas and have identified what buildings were actually used during WW2. Without this knowledge and participation, it would be incredibly difficult to achieve my body of work, so I understand the importance of collaboration within photography.
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