What is your passion?
On Photography
Storytelling
‘In domestic culture, photography conventionally has a place as a time
machine, a device for remembering.’
David Bate, The memory of photography
The Rise of the Amateur
Mobile Technology
‘The iPhone is the snaphot camera of today.’
Annie Leibovitz, Photographer
Photo Communities
‘Individuals articulate their identity as social beings not only
by taking and storing photographs to document their lives,
but by participating in communal photographic exchanges that
mark their identity as interactive producers and consumers of culture.’
Jose van Dijck,
Digital Photography: Communication, Identity, Memory
Social Photography
‘To live is to be photographed, to have a record of one’s life,
and therefore to go on with one’s life oblivious or claiming to be oblivious, to
the camera’s nonstop attention.’
Susan Sontag, Regarding the torture of others
‘Pictures become more like spoken language as photographs
turn into the new currency for social interaction.’
Jose van Dijck,
Digital Photography: Communication, Identity, Memory
‘… the act of taking a photograph is no longer about the image at all, it’s
about participation.’
Richard Banks, Microsoft Research
Collaboration
Real-time trends
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