Welcome to a new, wonderful blog about the photographic medium, arts, media and visual culture!
In less than two-hundred years, photography has become a ubiquitous visual medium used for the communication of ideas and thoughts relating to reality and a tool used for scientific documentation and artistic expression. Considered the visual form of representation du jour and a visual medium central to the cultural production of the modern age, photography has a lasting impact on we perceive and construct our view on the world.
This blog is dedicated to exploring the photographic medium, its place in modern and contemporary visual culture and its relationship to other cultural practices, artefacts and phenomena.
About Me
My name is Rebecca Sandelin and I’m an artist-photographer and photographic scholar. I hold a diploma in Photographic Arts from Västra Nylands Folkhögskola, a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Photography from Edinburgh Napier University and a Master of Letters with Distinction in The History of Photography from University of St Andrews.
My research and artistic practice takes an pluralistic interdisciplinary and intertextual approach towards the photographic medium, image and imaging and explores the interrelationship between photography, art, literature, fashion and emerging digital cultures, including video games.
I’m also interested in the histories of photography and the preservation and conservation of photographic objects as art and cultural history objects.
at home in summer of 2019