Week One PHO701
The first week is over or is it? Well, week two has started but I feel that week one is still needing more work to get the most from it. Playing catch up, with a late enrolment seemed to create a mountain of work, setting up this CRJ, reading all the orientation material. Oh and not forgetting the first webinar that I missed along with all the work needed for that.
My feelings that the opening topic “The Global Image” as a concept, could start as a simplistic way of covering the history of photography showing that even in the early days it was a global phenomenon. That was challenged, and could not be left there. Looking deeper more aspects start to become evident that the topic has so many other facets or layers. Others within the group have differing first thoughts, all valid as a simple answer to the global image discussion, however, these can only be a starting point as the whole debate far greater.
The opening of the forum activity with peers providing images, which range vastly in style and content I felt was successful even though very daunting at the time. Having to post with no sight of what was expected or what others would deliver. On examination of the results, after posting my work it was visible within our peer group that Marvin Heifermans observation is inherently true “each person in the room, because of his or her training, responsibilities, or interests, used and spoke about photography differently.”1 Leading to the conclusion that there may never be a “right” conclusion to the debate, however moving from my initial starting point I have a lot more vision about the need to get above the noise.
I think the weight of images being produced creates the noise. Various online sources seem to indicate that Facebook alone has over 350 million images uploaded per day. From the simple cell-phone selfie for social media through to gripping images, we can’t see them all, this means that to find the audience we have to know where to find them as the chance of them finding us is small.
To look at my practice I can see that I am local in a global world and need to raise my profile with improvements. With ideas revolving around in my mind as to what can be applied from this work and the application of this in my practice I can see that it’s important to have a grip on what photography means so that one can focus effort to produce the right image and place it in the right location.
Feeling more relieved now, having spent the weekend and a few late nights catching up I am ready to face week two. The Journey Continues.
1 Photography changes everything (Introduction) Heiferman, Marvin. Aperture
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