Author: Kirsten Davey Photography

Photographer, ex-expat and mama

War Photography: Questions and Comments

October 29, 2008

Peter Turnley’s “The Unseen Gulf War”: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_intro.html When I was browsing through various photographers in search of a Gleaning topic, I randomly clicked on Peter Turnley’s general site. Browsing through his work, I was struck by his open and often dramatacized portrayal of people in many different contexts and emotional states. Intrigued, I googled his … More War Photography: Questions and Comments

Lomography: “Don’t think, just shoot”

October 28, 2008

I have personally never heard of lomography before but am amazed at this cult following of a particular photographic style. It seems almost like a communist ploy by the Soviets and pure marketing strategy to derive a profit. But whatever it was it the beginning, it worked enough to prompt a popular photographic movement. Judging … More Lomography: “Don’t think, just shoot”

Truth?

October 26, 2008

Expressions of opinion, patriotism, and faith in a seemingly corrupt and manipulative political world. The search for truth continues…

Photography as a Weapon? Issues of photojournalism

October 20, 2008

Errol Morris’ article raises several questions on the ideology around photography and the moral and ethical issues within this ideology. What we believe to be false depends on what we believe to be true. According to Hany Fanid, a photograph supplies visual information that the human brain processes differently than textual information. Because of this, … More Photography as a Weapon? Issues of photojournalism

deviant

October 20, 2008

Deviance comes in many forms. It relies on an established norm, and opposition to that norm. Here I defy my personal approach to photography and obscure the subject being photographed, while expressing contrast between light and dark, and textures. Also, one of these is not like the other. Can you tell which?

A new way of thinking

October 16, 2008

“It’s not simply right or wrong, it’s a whole new way of thinking”- Edward Burtynsky This quote stood out to me the most when watching Jennifer Baichwal’s film, Manufactured Landscapes. Burtynsky’s photographs presented visual evidence of the remains and waste of our consumer culture which have become a consuming and prominent landscape itself. Like Baichwal … More A new way of thinking

Landscape prints

October 8, 2008

What happens when you consider the sky as a landscape? The focus shifts to a negative space of expansive nothingness. Location becomes ambiguous and universal. How can structures, natural and unnatural, frame that negative space? Framing and color give dimension to the seemingly flat surface. This was my approach to landscape when I was stuck … More Landscape prints