publications

 

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zine #1  _____    fishes

°°°2019°°°
zine #2  _____    marine life still lives under the anthropocentric gaze 

***2019***
zine #3  _____    A_zine #1

***2020***

zine #4  _____ A_zine#2

 

 

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But one day captions will be needed, of course. And the misreading and the misrememberings, and new ideological uses for the pictures will make their difference.[1]
-Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

 

In Regarding the Pain of Others, Sontag addresses the flexibility in the interpretations of images. As long as there is a certain distance to the topic, interpretations can vary and eventually, we read the photograph the way we want to read it. When nonhuman persons are depicted, in that sense, representation and its interpretation are complicated matter. This is because we are not only taking distance to the subjects photographically, but also systematically within our daily lives, which are firstly almost devoid of any nonhuman animals and secondly hold engrained believes of them being commodities.

Sontag believes that, ‘even to the extent that it [a photograph] is a trace, [it] cannot be simply a transparency of something that happened. To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude’.[2] Framing is a very basic characteristic in photography, therefore a framing, as wide or narrow it may be, is always dependent on the context wherein the image(s) are embedded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others, p.29, 1.st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Print.
[2] Ibid., p.26.