The Royal Academy of Artwork in The Hague has launched a new Master’s programme: Photography & Society designed for socially-engaged photographers. Reflections, refractions, windows, mirrors, and even taking pictures underwater (made doable with an external, waterproof casing) provide new takes on widespread snapshot topics like portraits or pet pictures. In and against the grip of advanced capitalism, it’s now essential more than ever to seek contextual awareness not simply in how people take photographs, or make images, but what society does with photographs.
Picture information from What Digital Digital camera. Relying on the applying and intent, some picture manipulations are considered an artwork form as a result of it entails the creation of unique pictures and in some cases, signature expressions of art by photographic artists. It might have been the one time in my life that I’ve simultaneously owned as many as 4 cameras all bought new.
I used to be commissioned by Stepladder to take street photography for a property campaign for a new growth in Arnold Circus, London. The core academics are myself, Broomberg & Chanarin, Lotte Sprengers and Rob Hornstra (who are also heads of the Pictures Dept.) We shall be adding a few academics to …