Can a Photograph Become a Perceptual Experience?

Anne Shirley, tutor on the Bachelor of Creative Industries course completed a research project investigating the way a photograph works to fill memory and how the viewing of a photograph can be slowed down to provide a more sensory experience.

In the project she played with the notion of the referent as integral to the photograph and opened up new areas of theoretical understanding about the way a photograph is constructed and the way it may be read. 

The project provided opportunities for a visual and theoretical practice that allows the researcher to deconstruct the photograph and make work based on how the referent is situated within a photographic process.

Anne’s most recent work Unseen further develops the theme of the role of a photograph in the construction of meaning and social narratives.