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ItemPoetic narrative: new visions of documentary photography( 2018)The research focuses on narratological possibilities in the so-called photographic series within documentary photography. Instead of causal, plot-based links, it considers other interrelations between images, invoking a linking principle outside canonical narrative forms. The research ultimately investigates a poetic logic, of which the photographic series is an articulation, distinct from apparent rationality, as a way by which the world, or worlds are exposed beyond mere recording, using questions constellated around notions of national identity as an example of this methodology.
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ItemUnlearning Cook: decolonising photography, the monument and self( 2017)The practice-led research encompassed in Unlearning Cook: Decolonising photography, the monument and self has been developed as a counterpoint to dominant colonial histories. The project draws a correlation between photography, history and ways of seeing. The research presented here addresses the question of unlearning Eurocentric colonial histories, specifically those relating to Captain James Cook, creating space for non-dominant narratives and reflecting critically on colonial heritages. The spectre of Captain Cook looms large, with the impact of his three voyages felt throughout the Pacific and in his home country of England. By using a variety of photographic methods, the body of creative work seeks to examine the medium's role in colonisation and question the historical narratives signified through colonial monuments, buildings and the built environment. Existing research into decolonisation has informed the studio project. Through situating knowledge, the artworks offer a decolonial approach to multiple perspectives on contested histories. This is a conflicted, unresolved space. The creative output of this research comprises the installation of a camera obscura structure, a number of cyanotype works on paper, lumen prints and a lightbox displaying an analogue negative. Documentation of the examined works is presented in the appendix.
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ItemPhotographic interpretation through slippage( 2016)This research asks the question; can photography provide a framework to be both understood and be formed through a series of cultural and linguistic misinterpretations? Through the creation and development of two distinct methodologies of practice - functional parallelism and formation through dislocation - three bodies of work were created. Each body of work centers on a recognition of cultural and linguistic slippage that I have experience as a Japanese person living in Australia that alerted me to a possible way of reinterpreting and subsequently making photographs. It is what I have come to term a ‘roundabout way’ of interacting with the image where the viewer to see the state of the photograph occurring from the relationship among subjects as images. This thesis is accompanied by demonstrations of photographic works and interpretations forming in each stage through the slippage.