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Photography and new media for changeSanjana Hattotuwa
TED Fellow
Painted revolutionsCapturing revolutions of yesteryear
French revolutionDelacroix
French revolution'Assault on the Tuileries'
American revolutionWashington Crossing the Delaware
Peninsular WarSpain, 1808
Shooting revolutionsCapturing revolutions today
EgyptJanuary 2011
TunisiaJanuary 2011
LibyaAugust 2011
SyriaJune 2011
IranJune 2009
What’s changed?
Democratisation of skill
Hard
Easy
Economy of time
Long
Quick
A wider public
Rich, few, local
Free, many, global
More produced
Few a year, after years
Hundreds a minute, immediately
Citizen produced
Professional, few, expensive
Amateur, many, ubiquitous
Better produced
Boulevard du Temple, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, 1839
Finer resolution
A dying camera?Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros was one of two Western photographers killed in Libya
Amateur camerasMobile phones in Syria
“The best camera is the One That’s with You. Images aren’t about dynamic ranges and megapixels. They’re
about stories and moments.”
~ Chase Jarvis
Mobile witnesses & mobiles witness
http://www.18daysinegypt.com
Camera optional?Photography via mobiles
How popular?Mobile phones or digital cameras on Flickr?
Apple’s iPhone
Apple’s iPhone
Evolution of a camera
2007 2011
1,000 words in a click means...
Questioning propagandaChanging the discourse
http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl
Bearing witness
http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl
Documenting dissent
http://www.movingimages.asia
Reframing the ordinary
http://groundviews.org/2010/05/29/the-big-stink-in-sri-lanka
Civic education
http://www.womenandmedia.net/options/?p=395
Communicating poverty
JR’s activist photographyPublic in public
JR’s activist photography
Public in public
JR’s activist photographyPublic on public
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html
Turning the world inside out
#OccupyColombo @ 6.17pm 100% of 99% missing. Who actually came? Comprehensive #fail Only walkers and joggers here #lka pic.twitter.com/AJEjTQEI
Real time engagement
Facebook the new Flickr?
Facebook the new Flickr?
On average, over 250 million photos are uploaded a day, or over 6 billion per month.
There are over 90 billion photos total on Facebook.
47 years to go through, one second per photo.
By far, the largest photos site on the Internet.
Tablets and mobiles are driving creation and consumption
Post PC world
500px iPad app
Consumption increase
Guardian iPad app
Consumption increase
Point & shoot vs. mobiles (iPhone 4S)
Converging devices
http://grassrootsmapping.org
Microsoft Photosynth
New ways of seeing
It’s not the tech
Groundviews iPhone app
YOU matter
Photo sources & credits
• Slide 1, Vikalpa, http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl
• Slide 2, Image from Martha Marshall, http://artistsjournal.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/wet-paint/
• Slide 3, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People
• Slide 4, Image from http://cultureandstuff.com/2011/08/13/marie-antoinette-on-trial-your-cut-out-and-keep-guide-to-reading-the-trial-part-1/
• Slide 5, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington's_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River
• Slide 6, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War
• Slide 7, Image from http://www.createandshare.net/tag/spanish-revolution
Photo sources & credits
• Slide 8, Image from http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/48631/egyptian-activists-kiss-soldiers-and-riot-police-strike-blows-against-tyrants-everywhere/. See commentary here http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/egypt-why-the-kiss-picture-is-so-radical/70518/
• Slide 9, Image from http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2011/01/women-in-tunisias-revolution/
• Slide 10, Image from http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya
• Slide 11, Image from http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/8157/56/Una-multitud-de-indignados-protestaron-en-un-millar-de-ciudades-por-todo-el-mundo.html
• Slide 12, Image from http://vorige.nrc.nl/article2277072.ece
Photo sources & credits
• Slide 21, Image from http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/21/6503987-in-memory-of-photojournalist-chris-hondros
• Slide 22, image from http://www.projectuprising.org/
• Slide 23, image from http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/06/social-media-documentary-makers
• Slide 26, image from http://panamoz.com/index.php/catalog/product/gallery/image/2923/id/1193/
• Slide 27, image from http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/gallery/item/Nokia_E521.php
• Slide 30, image from http://www.cultofmac.com/125823/iphone-4s-outshines-many-high-end-compact-cameras-says-camera-creator/iphone_camera_improvements-728-75/
Photo sources & credits
• Slide 32, image from http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/
• Slide 33, image from http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl
• Slide 34, image from http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl
• Slide 35, image from http://www.movingimages.asia
• Slide 36, image from http://www.movingimages.asia
• Slide 37, image from http://groundviews.org/2010/05/29/the-big-stink-in-sri-lanka
• Slide 38, image from http://www.womenandmedia.net/options/?p=395
Photo sources & credits
• Slide 43, image from http://twitter.com/#!/groundviews/status/129903570228232193/photo/1
• Slide 46, image from http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/05/05/remember-the-milk-releases-intuitive-yet-powerful-ipad-app/
• Slide 50, image courtesy Apple, http://www.apple.com/iphone/built-in-apps/camera.html
• Slide 55, image from http://walyou.com/president-barack-obama-newspaper-headlines-collage/
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