Week Four Reflections – and Photographic DNA

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I have done my best to fulfil the requests of the course this week, despite my misgivings. I will not dwell much on this, other than to say that I had a written correspondence with Jesse on the subject. All ‘water under the bridge’. I am very much focusing on how best to maximise the next Cambodia trip, starting Tuesday, …

Photographs Without (my usual) Cameras

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This week’s task is to consider how to create images without using our usual ‘apparatus’, whilst still being related to our project. I considered using Google Earth, and also capturing Traffic camera images from Phnom Penh. Interesting, and fun to watch the traffic ‘near misses’.  But not really a novel way of creating relevant, project-focused images. So, I also bought …