neo-documentary aka...

"...this is a photo of something, and it proves nothing"

In the 1980's, in the Australian art scene, there was a lot of photo-art that was being made that questioned the documentary nature of photography, one of the techniques used to do this was titles, another to COMPLETELY stage the shot as well. [Janina Green a Melbourne Based artist was one of many who experimented with this idea.]

This body of work [set] is about time, place, and space.

Here we are in the next century, and using technolgies like digital cameras, built into mobile phones the idea of a photo-document, can now be moved to a whole other level. Factor in the EXIF data which gives date and time of exposure, down to the second, and you have indeed a whole way of documenting every minute detail of your life, your work, your identity.

These new ubiquitous devices called mobile phones have changed our abiltiy to map our own movements over time, creating an extensive document, of where we have been and what we saw on the way.

2009.03.08
I'm thinnking now of re-titling the work, in a way that is more suggestive of the idea of note taking, and movement.

427 photos | 2,893 views

items are from between 25 Aug 2008 & 01 Aug 2009.