Photography 2.0
I've just spent a few exhausting days in the studio, which I haven't done for such a long time. I had forgotten how the printmaking process makes you slow down, be patient and have time to think. I'm so used to zipping impatiently round a computer screen with my mouse that being forced to stop and mull over ideas while waiting for screens to expose has been a good thing.
t's given me time to collect my thoughts a little more and think about how photography is forging forward into the domain of the 2.0's. We have Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0, so why not Photography 2.0? Given the ubiquity of digital cameras, social networking and the democratising of the photographic image (though I have my own ideas about this, more later when I have time) , it seens like a natural progression. Not may people yet have coined the term, though it has been used by one marketing company, and I suspect we are on the cusp of it infiltrating the mainstream.
Simone O'Callaghan
in ubiquitous computing, photography, social networking
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On the 'democratising of the photographic image', and the hint that you have ideas about it. I should think that the photographic cognoscenti would be reflecting on the fact that democracy is a deeply flawed system but accepted because it is the best we have. Just as many voters make choices for the wrong reasons and get a poor result, your bungling amateur photographer is going to take shots that are imperfect but look all right to him.
Cheers.
Mmmm... interesting comment, but I think you may have misintereted the spirit of things and are barking up the wrong tree. I have no quibbble with demorcacy. Rather, I am wondering are things really as democratic as they first appear? Have a look at my post "on Democraticising Photography" and this may clarify things for you.