As part of the Expanded Photographies symposium Charlotte Cotton gave a discussion on how our attitudes to recent image making technologies impact upon the narratives and potential narratives of the photographic in cultural spaces. she focused on practice in the past five years with specific reference to practitioners who extend this discourse, providing initiatives signal the future of photography in the cultural realm, together with the hurdles for this to happen across cultural spaces.
As part of the discussion she mentioned a few photographers who are pushing new technologies and seem to be the future of photography.
Owen Kydd
Lucas Blalock
Artie Vienkant
I thought I would use this space to put my response to the discussion and some of my concerns with this new direction of photography and its place within culture. To me, this emerging hybrid and "Photography as a theological object" leaves me apprehensive and uncertain. Is this really the future of photography, or are we still just trying to validate the medium as an art over compensating with avaunt garde concepts? In the process of doing so excluding ourselves and becoming an inaccessible format, only relatable to the academic and the elitist?
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