This is a community photo project which gives 9 children in Tanzania the chance to take photos of their lives. The project took about a month and was all about letting them have their own voice and share their own stories. I guess this is more like my first idea- it follows a group of people who are traditionally voiceless, while my project now follows people who have access to cameras. What i wanted to do was compare this group od photos with the ones the people in my project take.
My project is usually people who take photos of themselves, or their family. There are some photos of the surroundings, but people mostly are interested in themselves and other close people. This seems to be the same in this project; people are interested in other people. However, the way people act is different. Western audiences are much more pose-y- they smile and make faces and do hand signs and act hugely to construct this massive representation of themselves, while the people who are in Tanzania are much more quiet, they do not pose or try and show the world how great they are. This could be because of the nature of this project (its documentary) but it could be also be because they are culturally not pratised in photography. I find this pretty interesting. Here is an example of a photo taken compared with one of mine:
These two compare quite a lot, and this is interesting. I guess we grow up having photod of ourselves all the time; we are used to this, and we know what looks good, what everyone else is doing, how is funny to pose, how is attractive to pose etc etc wheras if you are not photographed lots, or if you can't find all the photos of yourselves all the time online, how you look either does not matter, or the techniques are not learnt.
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