pocket & palm photography: new frames of social witnessing
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Presentation on photography via mobiles delivered at the American Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 21st May 2014.TRANSCRIPT
Pocket & palm photography New frames of social witnessing
Sanjana Hattotuwa !TED Fellow Founding Editor, groundviews.org
“The best camera is the one that’s with you. Images aren’t about dynamic ranges and megapixels. They’re about stories and moments.” !
Chase Jarvis
7 billion people (2012) !
5.9 billion smartphones (2019)
what’s changed? the ubiquity of photography
Democratisation of production | From few to many
Geography of production | From geo-dispersion to geo-located photos
Time around production | From hours to develop to instant uploading
Audience around production | From personal by necessity to global by default
Cost of production | From expensive D-SLR (TCO) to totally free (via phone)
Age of producers | Getting younger (Chris, 41, Camille, 26 when killed)
Age of producers | (Ahmed Samir Assem, 26 when killed)
The marginal, those at risk, violently erased, stifled, illiterate, victims, children, women, minorities and rural can take photos to say “Here I am!”
impact the ubiquity of multiple perspectives
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” !
Chimamanda Adichie
Mobile witnesses and mobiles that witness
@dronestagram on instagram
#NotABugSplat
First images of hellish conditions post-war, August 2009
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@everydaysrilanka on instagram
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