For this week we will create two series of images and read a text.

This is a bit more than usual but I hope is not too much. The reasons for this is that each series will demand from you very different approaches. This will allow us to discuss the practical applications of exposure, composition and other formal elements in two very different situations.

But most importantly this is an exercise in seeing. Pay attention to the way your gaze works, what and how you see.  Your images shall be as much  a visual record as a personal reflection about your visual language-style.

I have posted some links to artists you might find inspiring but if you have some other references, please share them with the rest of us.

The reading is the one previously indicated. In the words of the author, it constitutes “an attempt (one among many) to make sense of photography ‘in excess’, that is, how it transcends its established definition”

The ideas from the text will be the basis for the discussion both of these projects but also a consideration of the question that Bryan brought up:

Can we still call this medium “Photography”?