Surfaces & Strategies Oral Presentation

mickyates Aftermath, Cambodia, ContextualResearch, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, Environmental, Genocide, Ideas, Movies, Oral Presentation, Photography, Project Development, SSWeek12, Stories, SurfacesStrategies 3 Comments

 I am exploring the long-term impact of the Khmer Rouge Genocide, and especially its impact on education. This includes revisiting our family history with that country and its people. Rather than creating a documentary about that Genocide, I see it as contextfor the real focus of my project, which is capturing and making public the unfinished stories from Cambodians, …

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 …