Visual mediums
A group for those of us who use visual mediums such as photography or film in our research, practice,... View more
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Alejandra Melian-Morse posted an update in the group
Visual mediums a year agoHello everyone! Welcome to our new members. It’s been a while since this group has been active, and I’d like to get it going again! I’m hoping to set up a meeting where we can decide together what kind of group we’d like to be and what kind of activities we’d like to do together. Please fill out the following poll and hopefully we can get…
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Jonas Johnson posted an update in the group
Visual mediums a year agoHello everyone!
My name is Jonas, and I’m the graduate coordinator for the Ecological Design Collective. I’m combing through the groups currently on the platform, and wanted to check to see if you anyone would like some help pushing this group’s objectives forward. We’ve been tightening up a few key projects and collaborations on the site and…
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Alejandra Melian-Morse replied to the discussion Film recommendations in the forum Visual mediums 2 years ago
I love how joyful this is! Also reminds me how often as anthropologists we think back on the tiniest moments over and over again until we can hopefully see the meaning in them
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Michael Degani replied to the discussion Film recommendations in the forum Visual mediums 2 years ago
that’s lovely, haven’t seen it but it looks great. I will recommend not quite an ethnographic film but maybe like an ethnographic music video? I have always loved this song and video and consider it my own private mission statement for the anthropological sensibility I’d like to cultivate, at least in its joyful and affirming mode (rather…
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Alejandra Melian-Morse started the discussion Film recommendations in the forum Visual mediums 2 years ago
To get the ball rolling on this one I’ll post my favourite ever ethnographic film: Sweetgrass directed by Lucien Castaing Taylor and Ilisa Barbash. The ways in which they technically balance the human and nonhuman presence on screen and in the audio is such an interesting way to think about the way we can represent different beings in a…
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Alejandra Melian-Morse posted an update in the group
Visual mediums 2 years agoHello to those of you who eventually find yourselves here! I’m Alejandra—I’m a visual anthropologist who studies the Wildlife Film Industry and the ways in which it constructs ideas of Nature for public consumption. Here’s a photo I took recently during my fieldwork that is particularly close to my heart
Part of my fieldwork took place in…
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This sounds fascinating! I can only imagine, the intuitive knowledge of the space and really listening to what the land has to tell you.
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Alejandra Melian-Morse created the group
Visual mediums 2 years ago
