Category: social photography
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New Publication: Ethnography as Method, Practice, and Ethical Commitment
I’m pleased to share my latest publication, which explores ethnography as a vital method within qualitative research. The article examines what makes ethnography so enduring and so necessary: its ability to capture the complexity, depth, and lived meaning of social life through immersive engagement in the field. Rather than treating people as abstract data points,…
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The Photographer of highly impacted landscapes by human intervention
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/261502643″>Tom Hegen: The Salt Series</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/1854media”>1854 Media</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
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Behemoth: A movie on the effects of rapid development
Source The Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Inner Mongolia Zhao Liang’s latest film, Behemoth provides a ring-side seat to the effects of rapid development, commerce, and pollution in this autonomous region of China. Shot over two years across China’s Inner Mongolia, Zhao Liang’s latest film, Behemoth provides a ring-side seat (or perhaps a helicopter-shot suspended…
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Gentrification of a postsocialist old centre in Gdansk, Poland
Yesterday, walking from industrial area in the surrounding of Gdansk until the historic old center. It was worth photographing the difference in terms of housing in hardly half a kilometer, as well as the contrast between old industrial sites by the river and the new real state that is being raised. The river side is…
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Postsocialism and postindustrialism: how outsourcing and offshoring boom is transforming Gdansk city, Poland
Gdansk city is emerging as the next outsourcing city. As many other mid-size cities in the country in the last decade, as well as the capital Warsaw did since 1990, the city is harbouring a increasing number of multinational corporations that aim to outsoource certain business process. In a preious post I echo a very interesting…
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Black-and-white highlights the social dimension of urban photography, Ouburg suggests
Ouburg, photographer who prefers photographing “other people above all”. I like the way he expresses why he has predilection for black-and-white photos. In many occasions, colour distracts the spectator´s attention while black-and-white make it easier to concentrate on the topic. Although he doesn´t discard colour provided that it adds something to the image. Source and more photos [spanish]
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Overscaled Urbanization (Tim Franco Captures the Overscaled Urbanization of Chongqing)
© Tim Franco These days, many of China‘s largest urban areas are easily recognizable to people from all over the world, with the skylines of coastal mega-cities such as Shanghai andBeijing taking their place in the global consciousness. Far less known though is the inland city of Chongqing – another of China’s five top-tier “National Central…