CPS_wk4_Place

wk4 Place

any slight change in a place can add significant depth and meaning to a narrative

In response to the theme of week 4, Place I produced a short picture narrative embracing space, place and character. Each new snapshot of the place added a greater depth and level to a story made from simple shots of at-hand areas and objects in my kitchen.

By listening to the space and adding meaning to it with different camera angles, zoom length and other objects, the meaning of the place changed frame by frame. Each additional frame enmeshed a deeper level of narrative. As a story unfolded embracing character, the memory and meaning of the place changed despite the images of the place being identical when reversing the order of the images in the linear story line. The levels and layers from each photo allow for new doors to take a story teller. The place is thus a catapult and very much part of the action and experience and cannot be separated. The space determined the actions.

Similar work by Arjun Kamath can be seen below. Whilst he has taken a horrific story, place is paramount to the understanding the context and depth of his message in his images.

Each image builds into the message that place drives and is integral to the story. Similar photos of lovers in different places would tell a vastly different story. Place profoundly is a protagonist and antagonist in Kamath’s plot.

“Engineer by degree, photographer by talent and a dignitary by heart, Arjun Kamath is a creativist who is markedly recognized for commencing the popularizing of the art through his photo-story series denominated as ‘Coming out’. In this series Arjun brilliantly demonstrates how LGBTs are horrendously looked down upon by the rightists of the country which constitute to around eighty percent of the country’s population. He conveys a very powerful message via the means of beautiful high definition quality pictures. Through his story, Arjun expresses his opinion of discontent for the regressive criminalization of homosexuality by the Indian law. Here are a few pictures from the story.” Also see attached file.

https://www.theyellowsparrow.com/visual-storytelling-artists-whose-photographs-depict-stories/

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Download File: 1616895244_cps-wk4-place.pdf