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Responses & Responsibilities

mickyates March 16, 2019 Aftermath, ContextualResearch, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Dark Tourism, Documentary, Ethics, Genocide, ICWeek8, Ideas, Informing Contexts, Journalism, Philosophy, Photography, Rephotography Leave a Comment

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, as I find them amongst the most personally distressing I have ever seen. Perhaps in that I am guilty of the kind of censorship that Tori Rose Deghett describes, …

Reflections on my Photographic Practice

mickyates January 22, 2019 Aftermath, B&W, Cambodia, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Culture, Dark Tourism, Documentary, ICWeek1, Ideas, Informing Contexts, Infrared, Japan, Landscape, Narrative, Negatives, Philosophy, Photography, Practice, Social Development, Unfinished Stories Leave a Comment

Robert Frank said, “Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”. I provided a reasonably thorough review of my photography in my last Oral Presentation, which started with this quote from Frank. I see my work as engaged documentary, and I have been influenced by photographers such as Frank and W. Eugene Smith for some time. More …

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My work is ‘Unfinished Stories’. Life is always in motion, every moment creates a sense of place or personality. Having travelled and worked all over the world, my photography is informed by my view that we are more the same than we are different – yet differences reveal stories. Details matter.

I seek intimacy, rapport with and understanding of the subject, whilst asking questions about who people are, what they’re doing, and what concerns them. I deliver to the best standard that I know how: technically, artistically, respectfully, ethically.

The aim is to fairly represent the subjects of my work, whilst challenging clients and audiences with engaging and creative story-telling.

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