Monday, 5 March 2018

categorising the uncomfortable images




With the images chosen within the group, they were categorised according to the categories of : 
uncomfortable/easy, ethical/unethical, important/trivial and vulgar/cathartic. With categorising the images, it allowed the discussion of how you order them. The outcomes found from the ordering of the Images to the different categories is :

gore is the most trivial and most uncomfortable 
low resolution photos lack meaning 
if you knew the person it might have more importance 
is it art or by a journalist or from a bystander
is it propaganda
could be desensitise- its the connotations which are massive and the problems related with the people in the images
adding a context changes the importance of the images massively 
vulgar images such as the hand with the holes are vulgar to create a reaction.

With this task it helped to create a question and theme to base the publication from and helped create ideas of how we want to approach it.


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