Uses of Photography:

A call back to the beginning of the semester, Rachel, Daisy and I were in charge for the fourth week class video, I didn’t know much about photography except for the basic technical knowledge by then, so looking back from now I can see the exercises and the past workshop were flipping through my mind like a dictionary. If to pick three things I have learned through the course, I would say firstly, communication could happen through photograph precisely, the photographers can either use their photographs to show their world or the others. Secondly, I think the course really gave me space and encourage me to expand what I love and wanted to do, for instance, project brief 2 is to keep up to one of my inspired photographers. And lastly, is to think and do like a professional photographer, go out on the street and be aware of whatever is happening beside you, even this is a place that you passed by every day but there will still be something I might never discover.

The most intrigue and inspire to me:

Coming to the last part of the term, to be honestly,  before I have entered the course, whenever I took photographs whether is street photography that captured randomly or is a carefully planned shooting, which has caused a lot of regretting on why didn’t I plan more explicitly so I can save my own time.

I used to be afraid of street photography when I was in China for holiday, people are feeling very uncomfortable when I held my lens up. Although, after I participated in this course, I started to love street photography after we have gone out of the campus for few times, even though the places we were asked to shoot are the streets I go through every day, things are kept changing day by day. The most inspired exercise was to go outside the college at each of us have take at least 16 portraits of different people, I though everyone will refuse to be in the camera but in fact over 75% of them were very happy to help. Other than pushing myself to talk to strangers, I also found the power of culture differences is massive, the inside the 15% of the people who refused to be photograph 10% of them were Asian. This may not be resonated by the Australian grew students, but to me I see really see how the culture make people different. The second exercise that I will pick as inspirationwas to shoot ‘edge of frame’, the shooting exercise allowed me to re-consider the sight of Flinder station. And of course, rethink many other things that passed by in my daily life, all of them could have been captured in my camera.

CONCERNS (after presentation):