Handbook

In a media-saturated world photography is often a driving force in how we navigate, record and make sense of the spaces we travel through and inhabit. In this course you will explore the idea of photography as both a medium and way of seeing in the 21st century. You will focus on photography as production and uses within real and virtual public spheres and how this defines and shapes our perceptions of geography, identity and politics. From 'selfies' to Google street-view and surveillance, you will explore everyday processes of photographic materiality, transmission and circulation in contemporary art and life using readily available tools and mediums, such as Xerox-imaging, camera-phones, social media and agitprop poster practices.