Stereotypes and Navajo

mickyates Anthropology, Books, CambodiaFMP, ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Culture, Documentary, Ethics, FinalMajorProject, FMPWeek10, Gaze, History, Ideas, Photography, Politics, Portrait, Race 2 Comments

Photography’s Other Histories, edited by Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson, is a well-researched work covering a lot of ground on two broad issues – the mainly European/Western use of photography with a mindset of colonialism, and the early use of photography in a few selected non-European countries. Pinney and Peterson add much to the conversation about the ethics of photography. …

Sebastião Salgado

mickyates Aesthetics, Art, Coursework, Documentary, Gaze, ICWeek8, Informing Contexts, Photography, Portrait, Travel 4 Comments

A couple of years ago, the PhotoBath collective, of which I am a member, mounted a successful exhibition of Sebastião Salgado’s work. It featured 8 platinum prints, produced by his local print maker. Bluntly, I was not a particular fan of Salgado. There was something about the sheer ‘epicness’ and technical wizardry of the photographs that can detract from the …