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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Sunderland
Connected - A visual essay of photographic portraits
This body of photographic work uses practice-led research to develop a visual essay as part of the investigation into how photography can be understood in the networked era. Connected is a photo-essay, a sequence of portraits of young people disengaged from the camera and their immediate physical environment, but potentially fully engaged, through the mobile phone, to their chosen online communities. Using the traditions of studio portrait photography, this work challenges the conventions or the relationship between viewer and sitter. The sitters are very much native to the digital world in which they inhabit within the images.
Connected is published as a visual essay in ‘The Versatile Image: Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet published by Leuven University Press and has been exhibited in the public realm in The Bridges Shopping Centre, Sunderland, as part of The Social: Encountering Photography (18 October-16 November 2013), a month of photography in Sunderland and the North East, alongside works by photographers including Simon Roberts, John Kippin, Julian Germain, Melanie Friend.
