From this week’s reading, Looking at Photographs by Victor Burgin, my friend and I reflected on it and found that their were two major ideas concerning the relationship between people and photography. The first one was the significance of subject and subjectivity, and the second was how there is a visual language in photography and imagery. This visual language held many signs and symbols that gave it a semiotic feel.

The visual language of photography is a complex product of the cognitive and psychological aspects of brain and our point of view is a combination of how human reception of visual cues occur and how our own nature allows us to detach ourselves from what we think is reality and swap it with our own imagination, either we do this when we experience it or when we create it ourselves. When i look at a photograph i look a the main factors, what is it, what is it trying to portray/meaning, then look at the technical aspects. Now if i saw a picture of a pig running on a farm, there are endless possibilities of what the pig is doing. Is it running from a horse or other animal, is it chasing a dog or cat, or even is there food on the other side of the photo which we cannot see. Our imagination can run wild! Photography can be a mind trap, or an amazing invention. Its up to you! Experience the endless possibilities.