| Popis: |
The portfolio of work presented here represents a coherent body of research that spans a ten- year-period. All the work under consideration uses photography as a principal source material. Through critical appraisal I will argue the importance of the published works in relation to the main themes of the personal, memory, narrative, and visual language. My practice-based research focuses on personal and embodied experiences through a creative practice that combines multiple elements of inquiry resulting in artefacts such as the photographic image, books, articles, audio broadcast, photography, and filmmaking. I draw on ideas of personal and collective memory, narrative and the construction and dissemination of visual language through lens-based media. This critical appraisal will focus primarily on two artefacts, the documentary film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay (2018) and the book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (2019). It will also reference the podcast series A Photographic Life and the associated book What Does Photography Mean to You? Accessing and analysing memory is central to my research practice and the published artefacts included within this PHD application. My practice and research embrace these perspectives and draw’s conclusions based upon more than one theoretical methodology building a framework of critical analysis from textural, post-structural textual and qualitative interviewing as prominent research methods. I will also evidence how this work contributes to knowledge within the field of photographic research and practice. |
