Cultural Imaginaries & Landscape Photography

Cultural Imaginaries and Landscape Photography

Captures space and difference in cultures. 

Esteban Pastorino

• Images are surreal 
• Time moves so fast but you can always take these kinds of pictures
• The blur in his images show us what he wants us to see, this highlights to the audience what we miss in everyday life 
• "The capacity to register time is indeed the most important aspect I wish to emphasize"

The way Esteban creates images makes them look like model sculptures, not real life. 

I like how Esteban uses blur to make the reader focus on a specific area of a photograph, i think its a clever way to do this despite its composition, in my photographs I'd like to do this to show time in peoples lives and that it doesn't matter who the subject of the photograph is or even where it is, but that you can always take these kinds of photographs because they are a part of everyone's lives. Everyone has relationships with other people, has family, dies, has something they will work hard for, something they are passionate about and has moments that pass us by without us even noticing. 

Lauren Marsolier 

• She makes seen the unseen - the overlooked
• Uses multiple photographs and puts them together to compose landscapes 
• Shows the abstract art in our surroundings

Mishka Henner 

• Uses internet images, uncovers censored government sites
• Uses google earth images to show us whats hidden in plain sight
• Takes someone else's work and makes it his own

Mishka's work brings up the debate of authorship and ownership. He creates new meanings through using other images. After you've created something and it falls into the hands of the ownership you are no longer the author of that work the audience are as they impose their own meanings and associations with the work.

Place is not a location, but instead it can be a complex rich mixture of different relationships that can happen over time.