How Media has Changed me and I want to Change It

 The phone and social media has entirely changed the landscape of photography, in the text the author writes, “By diminishing the importance of the media object, by making it close to or literally disposable, social photos recenter communication itself.” Social media has made photography a form of communication and has entirely restructured my world. I take photos of myself everyday and send them to my friends, often without words that communicate some sense of what is currently going on in my world. The text writes that these photos are “disposable” which is true, I would not care if most of these photos are wiped from the face of the Earth, they mean nothing to me.


This is an example of a photo I might send to several of my friends several times a day, it does not even convey

emotion or a message, it is literally disposable. In my art I want to capture images that might seem ordinary but are

embedded with some deeper meaning, even if only for me and the subject. Here is an example below.



 Another aspect of the text that struck me was the part in which they discussed that photography is violating and predatory in a way and I cannot help but think how that is exacerbated in today's world with the creation of social media. There is a certain pressure that people feel to share their personal lives and often it is too private to be sharing. Long paragraphs detailing one's relationship along with intimate photos.


I hope to become an artist that does not share too much about the person but takes their personal details and turns them into art like Humans of New York.






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