Author Archives: Kalpesh Lathigra

The short duration of the remote workshop also shaped the findings. While effective as an intervention, it did not allow sufficient time for participants to revisit, revise, or contextualise and have a group dialogue about the project and their images. … Continue reading →

The participants were sent a Microsoft Questionnaire with a series of questions after the remote workshop to reflect on the exercise of using the Smartphone Zoom. Here are a couple of the results . The results have been place into … Continue reading →

My research methods combined a short, practice based workshop, participant image-making, and post-workshop written feedback Four students from the BA Photography Pathways took part in the remote workshop. Two were 2nd year and two were 3rd year students. The pathways … Continue reading →

Education treats learners as co-investigators of reality rather than empty vessels to be filled. The setting of a structured “brief” formulated for an outcome based on industry expectations, stereotypes, fads and in the context of “content driven ” platforms produces a … Continue reading →

Joan Fontcuberta – Post Photography The democratisation of photography where everyone becomes a photographer but photography loses privilege. The Smartphone effect with its magic filters, Ai, computations and the universal language we all speak with images. Photography has become a … Continue reading →

Post-photography dismantles style and originality. Aesthetics without style. The End of a Practitioner’s Authorship The Smartphone reality is that presets flatten visual difference , trends override personal vision and images converge toward platform norms. The “look” is no longer personal, … Continue reading →

Berger argues that mechanical reproduction detaches images from their original context, authority, and ritual meaning. Smartphone photography radicalises this idea. From reproduction to instant circulation: Images are no longer reproduced after being made; they are produced for circulation. A photograph today is incomplete … Continue reading →