At the University of Leeds

mickyates Aftermath, Cambodia, ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Culture, Documentary, Ethics, FinalMajorProject, FMPWeek16, Genocide, Holocaust, Ideas, Media Theory, Narrative, Photography 1 Comment

I was in Leeds this week,  giving my first lecture to the MA Media and Communications students. I had been invited by Dr. Jim Brogden, Programme Leader MA Film, Photography and Media. The subject of the lecture was my work in Cambodia, and how I had arrived at the current FMP work. I spent quite some time discussing ethical issues of documentary …

A Constructed Image

mickyates Aftermath, Audience, Cambodia, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, Ethics, Exhibition, FinalMajorProject, FMPWeek15, Genocide, Holocaust, Ideas, Installation, Journalism, Landscape, Narrative, Photography, Practice, Project Development, Time, Traces, Unfinished Stories 3 Comments

As I am closing in on the final choices and hanging plan – and nearing the time that I need to write a Critical Review – it seems appropriate to summarise some of my thought processes. Unfinished Stories aims to put previously unheard personal memories into a new collective memory, reinforced by a reconstruction of events through photography. This is …