24/10/17
I have been thinking more about the concept of selfies. Oddly enough, it is not a photographic genre I have experimented with. I am not sure why. Is it because:
- I am very body conscious and don’t like anyone taking photographs of me
- I am too old, and haven’t ‘got the hang of’ the social media explosion
- Too lazy/too busy with other things
- Not the right (or rather wrong) personality type
Any or all of the above probably apply. So I decided that it would be interesting to take a two-pronged approach to investigating them further.
- Research about the academic theories of the use/abuse of selfies
- Personal experimentation with the genre
This will be a long term project that I plan to revisit intermittently over the next year or more. It doesn’t fit directly into my studies for EYV, so will sit alongside it, although some of the research and practice may overlap.
I have set up 2 threads for this, one on research and one for images. I started taking the images in August, but have decided to concentrate on taking an image together with a photo of where I took the image on a monthly basis, for ease of remembering I have chosen the 1st of the month, around about lunchtime. I have also been playing with altering the images – initially using Snapseed on my phone, but also plan to play with them using other phone software, so will see where that leads.
Expressing Your Vision 