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For prompting issues of context and meaning: stereotyping, image manipulation, clear/ambiguous communication, dissemination, ‘how are we to discern such images, and what do we do with the information’. This is an example of an advertisment.
Photo essay
‘A photo essay is a set or series of photographs that are intended to tell a story or evoke a series of emotions in the viewer’. They are particularly important to help create a more detailed story of an event or issue.
‘The Backyard’ is my current documentary photo essay which explores the way we use our ‘out-the-back’ spaces. When I arrived back from having lived in Vietnam for nearly a year, I was struck by the difference of how we live out the back of our separated zones compared to the incredibly public ‘life on the street’ in Viet Nam.
