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Week 4 & 5 – Interdisciplinary Photography

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This week we have looked at interdisciplinary photography. In the lecture there were a number of practitioners who use other disciplines in their work, one that stuck out to me was Sanna Kannisto. I like how she shows the entire process within the image, rather than zooming in, or cropping it to be more of a textbook image. “Her photographs allow us to see the birds through the artist’s gaze, which is full of wonder and enthusiasm for nature.” (Haslinger, 2022). 

(Kannisto, 2022)
(Kannisto, 2022)

We also spent some time looking into place, and how a place is described and photographed. I found ‘Contemporary photography practice: From landscape to expanded modes of place representation’ by Rodrigo Hill, where they say “ I  understand  places  as  composites  of  many  layers,  histories,  stories,  accounts, views, meanings, cultures and understandings.” (Hill, 2021) This opened my understanding to how a place can be described. A place isn’t just what you physically see, but also how it came to be what it is today, in a socio-economic standpoint as well as a geographical one. To properly describe a place, you should have at least a basic understanding of the history, the cultural aspects, and the geography of the place.

The guided project for this fortnight is to create some interdisciplinary photography ourselves. I had multiple ideas:

(Razell, 2013)(Hałun, 2009)(Merkestijn, 2022)(Iv, 2021)(Iv, 2021)(Adams, 2021)#

I presented these ideas to my peers and tutor, and they agreed that 2 of these ideas stuck out, the biological zooming, and the podcast shooting. They liked the interactiveness of the biological zooming, but they also liked how personal a podcast would be. I decided to merge the two, and create an interactive walk, where each image is laid over with sound that I recorded whilst taking the image.

I went on a shoot, and decided to go to Steart Marsh, a local nature reserve, which has always been very colourful with a lot of wildlife when I’ve visited. I did however, forget that I have visited in Spring and Summer, not toward the end of Winter. Everything was monotone in colour, and there wasn’t a lot of wildlife to be seen, however I decided to take this and use it to my advantage.

After editing, I had 36 images. The brief is for 8-12, so I had a lot to cut out.

I ended with the following 12 images.



To make this interactive as I wanted to, I went to use the same website that I had in a previous project (https://video.eko.com/v/VyX30A?autoplay=true), however I found that the interface had changed, and I wasn’t able to create what I wanted to. I tried a number of other websites and programmes before finding www.interactive-img.com where I was able to create the image how I wanted. This did mean however, making the images into videos which I uploaded to YouTube. I found that YouTube depleted the quality of the images after it was embedded into the interactive image. I thought of uploading them to Vimeo instead, however there wasn’t the time before I was due to present my work. The final product I embedded into my personal website so that I could present it.

If the above embedment does not work, please visit https://www.jesselongmedia.co.uk/photo-walk-and-talk to view.

I presented this to my peers, and they likened it to French cinema, and I was told that the depletion of the image quality works in this context. The added sound made it very personal, and people kept feeling as though the image would move. Feedback was overall very positive for this project, and I would like to expand on this in the future.

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