Week Ten Reflections – Landscape, Context and WIP

mickyates Aftermath, Cambodia, CambodiaFMP, ContextualResearch, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Dark Tourism, Ideas, Landscape, Narrative, Photography, Project Development, Reflections, SSWeek10, Stories, SurfacesStrategies, Traces 13 Comments

My reflections this week are about my photographic approach to ‘aftermath’. Christian Schwager, a Swiss photographer, made a series My Lovely Bosnia (2003 – 2005), around the still-present land mines in the landscape. Some of the images are specifically illustrating the landmines ‘in situ’, with demarcated areas for clearing. Others show the beautiful countryside. The overall effect is engaging, almost poetic, leading the viewer to consider the impact of …

Landscape

mickyates Aesthetics, Aftermath, Art, ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Expressionism, History, Ideas, Impressionism, Insight, Landscape, Photography, PositionsPractice, PPWeek1 11 Comments

I have been studying the materials for Positions and Practices, and was quite taken with the chapter on Territorial Photography by Joel Snyder, in the book Landscape and Power by WJT Mitchell. Landscape is not really the centre of my practice, though I am always attracted to the genre, which probably goes back to my painting days, and studying art in …