In photography there are endless rules we are taught to follow to create successful images. These rules could be to do with technical, compositional or oven social context. Posing subjects, manipulating images and becoming over involved in the stories is often seen as wrong or unprofessional in documentary photography due to how the photos are used to inform people of real life events. in a creative context these photos have been manipulated to enhance their existing feature of even to make them into further experiments of art.
I am going to choose one of the following rules to research in detail an develop it by creating my own work which brakes the rule.
The Rule of Objectivity
The Rule of Audience
The Rule of Manipulation
The Rule of Reality
The Rule of Technicality
The Rule of Ownership
The Rule of Ownership
The Rule of the Camera
The Rule of Rule Breaking
I have chosen to look into the rule of ownership because in the age of the internet and mass media nothing is ever completely original. photographs are now taken for granted and are not as limited as they used to be meaning people can take as many photos a they want with their smart phones and share them all over the world. But once they are shared, who owns them? Around 1.8 billion digital images are uploaded to the internet every day, all for a variety of different purposes, so it is difficult to produce new, original and useful work. There is so much already out there which could be used why do we feel a need to constantly create new things. The solution could be in the change of creative attitude of the old fashioned idea of ownership and copyright.
Copyright is a legal term used to describe the rights creators have over their work, it can include books, music, photography, paintings, copy, sculptures, logos, and many more. A copyright for original work lasts the lifetime of the artist and 70 years after their death. If someone copies a piece of copyrighted work and the original owner feel that they are making profit from their design it can become legal.
I am particularly interested in the ownership of the press (media convergence) which is where a concentrated group of people own and control the mass media. Although the news is meant to be fairly unbiased, we see it as a truth and fact distributer in society however there are many things that are missed and adapted. The Government is ultimately in controls of the media meaning they have the power to select and share what they want. newspapers can manipulate stories and bring them out of context to suit their own political views for example (daily mail very strong opinions)
I want to break the rule of ownership by reusing and manipulating existing images. I will find the images in newspapers, magazine, personal achieves and on the internet. my cutting out
this also links back to the overall theme of political landscapes because newspapers are such a big distributer of . information and are very political in their views on current topics i also want to take inspiration from a variety of places.
