Contemporary photography practice

From landscape to expanded modes of place representation

Bibliographic Data

ID22019130
AuthorsRodrigo Hill (0000-0003-3943-0393, Auckland University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume3
Issue4
Pages167-185
Publication date2021-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista 2i | Estudos de Identidade e Intermedialidade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2184-7010 • E-ISSN: 2184-7010
PublisherUniversity of Minho (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.21814/2i.3455
OpenAlexW4205868151
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

Contemporary photographic practice has evolved into a broad field of possibilities, a flux of representational modes that represent emotions, experiences and feelings. In parallel the depth and layering of places offers a stimulating challenge to researchers and artists whom are willing to creatively explore nuances of land and nature as well as the multi-sensorial and spatial “reality” of places. The Waikato River is my research locale, located in the central North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. I draw on contemporary photography practice and theory to develop multimodal approaches to my research place, expanding objective modes of landscape and place representation. I trace a timeline from early landscape photography practice particularly during the British colonisation in New Zealand juxtaposing my photography practice as a counter approach to Eurocentric modes of place representation. This is informed by local Waikato Māori cosmologies and more contemporary readings on place. As a result I conceptualised a theoretical framework around the notion of place imaginaries as a creative platform for the development of expanded photographic modalities

Aesthetics · Aotearoa · Archaeology · Art · Geography · Photography · Sociology · Timeline · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Photography and Visual Culture

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