Photography can be a powerful tool of inquiry, and I think I am beginning to explore this tool through this semester. The photo books recommended this semester are all very inspiring and each of them manages to build a very different picture. David Hockney’s photo collage and Alex McLean’s aerial photography are so fantastic that my mind was full of ideas after the lecture.
I could not imagine how powerful our photo essays can be before a few weeks ago. I was greatly amused by everyone’s photo essay. Before this semester I am an amateur lover of photography. I always treated photos as separate objects and tried to make each photo strong or beautiful. I now discovered that when photos have relationship with each other the possibilities are much diverse and they can tell whole new stories (though every single photo is very important)! When photography comes with fine art, literature, poetry, video, music, websites, social media, and other kinds of media, the horizon is suddenly broadened! I feel with this tool my world of exploration and expression has little boundary now.
The other great tool I’ve learned from this class is website, though I had tough time with using WordPress… The personalized communication tool has decentralized the traditional media and I find I can express myself and communicate with people through building websites. Each website can tell strong stories, as a book can do but in a more interactive way. And now I get the motivation of building up my personal website and I will definitely use website as a tool in my future career.
I think now I am able to build up several photo essays based on my previous photos. I used to put many photos in an album since so many of them are powerful from the author’s perspective. From this class I learn to use a viewer’s perspective rather than author to look at the works. The length of the essay, the pace and transitions of the story-telling play important roles in attracting and inspiring readers. So the works need to be done in a concise and strong way.
For the coming winter, I want to take a serious of photos in South Asia and plan to juxtapose them with photos of US. After seeing different parts of the world, I am astonished at so different ways of life co-exist simultaneously in the same globe. And I keep exploring my idea of parallel worlds in my spare time. The idea is strengthened after I came to US. The first thing deep in my mind of US is the wasteful way of life. On top of suburbanization, dependence on automobile and waste of electricity and gas everywhere, the large amount of disposable utensils being used every day is totally astonishing for people from developing countries, or even Europe. The composition of trash in US is very different from the ones in other countries. I find most of the stuff in trash cans in US is reusable. I’ve taken a bunch of photos of trash. And “The Flower of Trash” will be my next theme that I plan to explore after water.
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