Creative Production: Photography

Edited Photos for the Final Project

Week 9: Susan Sontag On photography Since the inventory in 1839, images have been photographed, and this led to a significant change in our notions of what is the valuable thing to look at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. The article points out that the most important result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads - as a anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world.  With still photographs the image is also an object, lightweight, cheap to produce, easy to carry about, accumulate, store. Photographs make up and thicken the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge -- and, ther...

Week 9: Culture of Connectivity Van Dijck uses the world's largest photo sharing website Flickr as an example to demonstrate the 'Culture of Connectivity' - a post-broadcast, networked culture where social interactions and cultural products are inseparably entangled in technological systems. It is stated that social media platforms such as Flickr are promoted as a 'collective effort' where users form relationships and establish communal experiences, leading to collective memories.  There is the notion that sharing photos leads to collective perspectives, experiences and memory . Hoskins’s three concepts 1) The notion of a technological unconscious Hoskins suggests that there is a technological unconscious that leads to a co-evolution of memory and technology. This technological unconscious involves powerful digital environments that are operated without the knowledge of those who use these environments and those affected by them. Flickr’s metada...

Selected Photos (Koya City London)

Photo-shooting at Koya City London Ikuko (from Namayasai) introduced me to the Japanese noodle restaurant called Koya City in London, where she delivers her Japanese vegetables. I went there to take some photos of delivery today. I arrived at 10:20am. This is the dinner menu. The staff told me that they use the vegetables from Namayasai only for dinner. They served me roasted green tea. I loved the wooden style and the atmosphere here. Ikuko arrived at around 10:45am and quickly delivered one big box full of Namayasai's vegetables. She harvests all the vegetables for delivery at 6:00am to 9:30am and goes around London to deliver. I wanted to take how the producer-staff relationship was close but the room was dark and could not take a good photo. Although the chef was not there, I was able to take photos of sous chef Gustavo. They usually do not use the vegetables from Namayasai; however, Gustavo made us one vegetable dish ...