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  • Assignment 9: Photography is Simple

    Photography must be simple given the large numbers of photographs being taken and shared.  There are approximately 5 billion photographs taken every day or some 1.8 trillion every year or 57,246 photos taken per second. They are not being captured on high end DSLRs which are cumbersome and require a level of expertise that only…

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  • 9.1 the Distance Between Us

    An interesting project! Watching an interview by Francis Hodgson with Sally Mann about her book Hold Still a Memoir with Photographs I realise, again, that perhaps photographs do not speak for themselves. It is evident that this is a book where the narrative gives meaning to the photographs. Many of them from family archives. Her…

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  • Assignment 8: Making sense of Photographic Images

    A Critical Analysis of the monochrome photograph of man and woman playing cards at a Kitchen table. The man is smoking. Denoted in the image, two people, a man and a woman, possibly a ‘couple’, at a table, playing cards over a drink and snacks. Behind them are photographs surrounding a large portrait of a…

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