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advisor
Ings, Welby
advisor
Left, Ron
author
Mortensen Steagall, Marcos
2019-02-14T03:46:28Z
2019-02-14T03:46:28Z
2019
https://hdl.handle.net/10292/12251
This thesis constitutes a practice-led, artistic research project that asks:
What are the issues that must be addressed when photographing land, such that one might express an immersive, embodied, spiritually-attuned relationship between the self and what is recorded?
In the study, I suggest that embodiment may reach beyond the cognitive and physical, to engage with a form of ‘living essence’ that embraces a realm of knowing that may be broadly understood as spiritual. When engaging with the land in this dimension the photographer is immersed in a process that involves a communion between the ‘essence of the living self’ and the ‘essence of the living earth’.
In conducting the study, I utilise a heuristic inquiry to facilitate a dialectical approach to problem solving. Here practice advances to new understandings that have operative meaning for practical knowledge. In the inquiry I employ a form of reflective field journal where images, poetic writing, technical data and critical thinking enable me to reflect on both a state of immersion and outcomes emanating from the process.
The research contributes to current discussions surrounding the manner in which photographers engage with land because the study proposes and unpacks a process of ‘Immersive Photography’ as a conceptual and methodological approach.
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Immersion
Embodiment
Landscape Photography
Mauri
Practice-led research
The Process of Immersive Photography: Beyond the Cognitive and the Physical
Thesis
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