Anthony Luvera & Collaboration

mickyates Cambodia, Collaboration, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, FinalMajorProject, FMPWeek4, Ideas, Photography, Social Development 3 Comments

I enjoyed this week’s lecture by Anthony Luvera. He has a socially-engaged practice, usually involving some form of community photography. As such, he has a lot of experience of the right kinds of collaboration, and, as an educator, understands and explains how it works. In some projects, he uses his own photography to support social causes. In others, he encourages others to …

Soviet Holocaust Photography

mickyates Aftermath, Cambodia, ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, Genocide, Holocaust, ICWeek1, Ideas, Informing Contexts, Photography, Plans & Notes, Project Development 4 Comments

I have just been reading a paper written by David Shneer, in the Humanity Journal, 2014, University of Pennsylvania. Shneer discusses the approach taken by Soviet liberation forces as they photographed Nazi atrocities. In the West, our collective memory of the Holocaust is largely informed by photographic images of the liberation of Concentration and Death Camps, and the associated human …