Archive For: Critical Theory

3This is my third attempt to write this post and has taken nearly a year to finish. One of the reasons has been research. I have been reading a lot about landscape. Both as a photographic subject but also landscape in and of itself from a geographic point of view. The sticking point is the

AI generated images can imitate the visual language of photography, but in doing so they disrupt our traditional understanding of what a photograph is. Unlike conventional photographs, generative AI images often have no physical subject or original photographic event. This makes studying them interesting when considered through photographic theory, documentary truth, indexicality and Jean Baudrillard’s

To finish my Master’s Degree I chose to write a dissertation (as opposed to a Final Major Project). This was initially daunting as the limit was 20,000 words (excluding quotes), but good guidance and planning meant this was filled relatively easily. I chose to write about portrait photography as this was one area that I,

Postdigital landscape photography considers how digital technologies, data and post-photographic practices have changed the way landscapes are represented. Rather than simply photographing a physical place with a camera, artists can construct landscape images from satellite imagery, topographical data and other digital sources, challenging traditional ideas about photography, authorship and our representation of the natural environment.

RThe following essay I completed as part of my MA unit ‘Writing Criticism: Critical and Analytical Frameworks‘. This was a critical writing essay on a topic of our own choice, and our first major essay of the MA. I chose to write about documentary photography and got 83/100 which I was pretty pleased with. Naturally,