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Tom Swanborough-Nilson.
Based in London.
Studying BA Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster.

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Descriptive Camera

A very interesting concept, and actually something I briefly touched on in one of my essays for university. As Barthes said, photography has no inherent language, it is dependent on our understanding of another language. This ‘camera’ removes the need for this interpretation (although it does very heavily rely on a third party’s language…)

That text really isn’t as descriptive or insightful as I had meant it to be. Hopefully I’ll revisit this when my brain is working and re-work my blurb.

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F (by victorsez)

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Ira Glass on Storytelling (by David Shiyang Liu)

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Edge by Yuji Hamada.

Artist statement:
“We Japanese have a sense of copying or catching the truth in taking photography. When I started to photograph, I really didn’t grasp this sense. I kept taking photographs and concluded that photography is the media determined by the position where I stand now and by the idea that I am thinking now. Truth depends much on one’s identity. Truth [flows]. It might be white. It could be black. But I think it should be gray tone. I am interested in the borders that are gray tone. Or, I should say, truth has all sorts of mixed and blended colors, like on a painter’s palette. Borders show me the [relationship between] reality and fantasy, between [the] usual and unusual”

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