Fig. 1: Ewald 2016
Respondent generated images is something I haven't had the courage to try, though I find the idea intriguing. I am hoping to develop and host a workshop somewhere around week 11 of this block and I am planning to incorporate respondent work more fully. I need to do a bit more research in this area, looking at past examples, so I can avoid problems that may have existing solutions (Chalfen 2011). I also need to decide what the purpose, and output of such a project might be.
Wendy Ewald encourages the importance of art reaching its own community, and sometimes first, meaning the community in which it's made (Ewald and Luvera 2013). A great example of this is her project: This is Where I Live (Ewald 2013). Student produced the images themselves, then were able to visit them on display. Seeing their own images in print solidified the experience and released their stories into the world. Susan Mesesales explains the importance of the art visualized in its own community further; it is not necessarily done to honor the participants but to help them understand that looking at photographs is as much of the process as creating them.
Though often created locally, the output for and viewing of my art is typically not local. I will have to consider this further and perhaps incorporate this concept into my Final Major Project.
Chalfen, R. 2011. 'Differentiating Practices of Participatory Visual Media Production' in: L. Pauwels & E. Margolis, eds. (2011) The SAGE handbook of visual research methods. (Los Angeles: Sage), pp. 186–200.
Ewald, W. 2016.This is Where I Live; Israel/ Palestine, 2010-2013. [online] available at http://wendyewald.com/portfolio/this-is-where-i-live-israel-palestine/ [accessed June 2019].
Wendy Ewald, This is Where I live: https://goo.gl/pfRkbe
Ewald, W. and Luvera, A. 2013. Tools for Sharing: Wendy Ewald in Conversation with Anthony Luvera, Photovoice, 20, pp. 48–59
Figure 1: Ewald, W. 2016.This is Where I Live; Israel/ Palestine, 2010-2013. [online] available at http://wendyewald.com/portfolio/this-is-where-i-live-israel-palestine/ [accessed June 2019].
Wendy Ewald, This is Where I live: https://goo.gl/pfRkbe
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