Responses & Responsibilities

mickyates Aftermath, ContextualResearch, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Dark Tourism, Documentary, Ethics, Genocide, ICWeek8, Ideas, Informing Contexts, Journalism, Philosophy, Photography, Rephotography 2 Comments

James Elkins, in What Photography Is (2011), analyses photographs from 1905 of Lingqi, the Chinese ‘death by a thousand cuts’. (chapter 6, pg 177-220). I will not post the images here. Perhaps in that I am guilty of the kind of censorship that Tori Rose Deghett describes, but I think that is an editorial decision, not a political decision, which …

Colour, Black & White or Infrared

mickyates B&W, Cambodia, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, ICWeek5, Informing Contexts, Infrared, Landscape, Photography, Plans & Notes, Practice 3 Comments

On this last Cambodia trip, I was experimenting with infrared, being intrigued with its ‘ghost like’ properties. I shared a few quick images at the webinar with Michelle whilst I was travelling. The question came up – how do the results compare with regular black and white (and even colour). Landscapes are not per se the subject of my work, …