A Constructed Image

mickyates Aftermath, Audience, Cambodia, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, Ethics, Exhibition, FinalMajorProject, FMPWeek15, Genocide, Holocaust, Ideas, Installation, Journalism, Landscape, Narrative, Photography, Practice, Project Development, Time, Traces, Unfinished Stories 3 Comments

As I am closing in on the final choices and hanging plan – and nearing the time that I need to write a Critical Review – it seems appropriate to summarise some of my thought processes. Unfinished Stories aims to put previously unheard personal memories into a new collective memory, reinforced by a reconstruction of events through photography. This is …

Realism and Imagination

mickyates Aftermath, ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Dark Tourism, Documentary, ICWeek11, Ideas, Informing Contexts, Journalism, Philosophy, Photography, Project Development 4 Comments

This week has been focused on completing the Critical Review. The recent Oral Presentation was well received, although I knew that for the CR, I needed to do less on personal history and biography, and more on critical theory. I wrote and illustrated a draft, and got some very helpful feedback from Ashley – suggesting I could better explain the …