Photographic Journey Research Articles

In/Visible – A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain

ABSTRACT The result of a collaboration between an anthropologist and a photographer, in this photo essay we aim to visualize the medical process of egg donation and the quotidian lives of egg donors in Spain. By extending their biographies beyond the moment of extraction, we shed light on the intertwined messiness of medical procedures and everyday life and the precarious circumstances in which egg donation takes place in Spain today. Our aim is to highlight the participants who, although they matter most in the egg donation economy, are concealed: the egg donors.

THE STORY OF YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER IN “MESATYA – TELUSUR PUPUTAN BADUNG” DOCUMENTARY FILM

Documentary films are a medium for crafting a message and getting that message out to the broader community. The philosophical value of cultural roles and responsibilities can be presented through visual and verbal messages, and documentaries are one of the most accessible digital educational media. The presentation of the documentary Mesatya – Telusur Puputan Badung is a historical story that happened in 1906. It was inspired by the National Museum of Badung royal heritage collection, which the Dutch confiscated during the Military Expedition in 1906. This film depicts Bali with its beautiful nature and culture and the story of the bloody tragedy that ever happened to maintain self-respect and country. Focuses on sequences described in terms of the opening, central, and closing scenes, including the cultural and inspiring values presented in the film through visual and linguistic information. Also, most visuals of Mesatya – Telusur Puputan Badungdocumentary film represented a reconstruction photography technique. We can see that the story runs from the perspective of a young photographer who wants to find inspiration from the event. Audiences are invited to enjoy every shot and scene with a visual aesthetic full of meaning. We can see a detailed description of the meaning of the photographer's journey.

ANALYZING RAGHU RAI'S PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION AND CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION IN INDIA

For many years, famous photographer Raghu Rai has used his camera to capture the spirit of India. His work has received widespread acclaim for its artistry, originality, and capacity to convey the nation's rich, varied cultural past. The goal of this analysis is to shed light on Raghu Rai's photographic journey and examine the major topics and motifs that characterize his distinctive aesthetic. In the study, Raghu Rai's efforts to safeguard India's cultural heritage for future generations are also emphasized. The study consults a variety of sources, such as the photographer's interviews, reviews of his work, and pertinent academic literature. This review highlights Raghu Rai's contributions to the field of photography as well as his work to protect and advance India's cultural heritage for future generations. Raghu Rai's distinctive aesthetic is marked by his keen eye for capturing the essence of Indian culture and traditions. His photographs often depict the vibrancy and diversity of the country, showcasing its rich heritage and timeless beauty. Through his work, Rai not only documents India's cultural legacy but also plays a crucial role in preserving it for future generations to appreciate and cherish. By highlighting Rai's significant contributions to photography and the preservation of India's cultural heritage, this study honors his tireless efforts to protect the country's cultural heritage.

Visual Essays on Urbanity: A Photographic Journey through Architectural Transformations

'The Visual Spaces of Change' (VSC) section emphasises the role of photography and various visual representation methods as pivotal in researching, documenting, and analysing the transformational aspects of architecture, urbanity, and territorial landscapes. This section acknowledges the intricate link between societal transformations and alterations in the spaces we inhabit, with recent historical events underscoring the swiftness of these spatial changes. The radical nature of these transformations has necessitated a consistent and urgent documentation of the impermanent nature of places. Places, inherently uncertain, are captured visually to preserve and understand their essence. Contemporary societal shifts, such as urban gentrification or health-related crises, have brought about significant changes in life patterns, leading to the creation of photographs that were once unimaginable. The VSC resides here, in documentary artistic projects that explore the expanded field of architecture, from its tangible manifestation to the experiences it fosters. It investigates various scales, new spatial configurations, architectural vernaculars, and urban vistas, while also probing into the discursive spaces that intersect with larger frameworks, including socio-cultural, political, historical, and technical realms.
 By treating images as a form of visual language that is disseminated and interpreted across different global points[1], this section extends its dialogue. It opens up to incorporate diverse cultural viewpoints from various regions, places, and countries, using the specificities of each location to enhance our understanding of society and the territorial landscape. The strategy's objective is to promote the use of images in constructing artistic projects that offer critical reflections on the transformation of architecture and urban landscapes, influenced by the diverse ways they are perceived and experienced. Ultimately, the section seeks to utilise the contemporary significance of imagery, particularly photography, as a means to broaden knowledge. Photography is esteemed as a prime medium for interpreting architecture and for crafting imaginative narratives, navigating between reality and fiction, replication and alteration, and the amalgamation of analogue and digital visual forms, thus traversing various disciplines and blurring artistic demarcations.
 The section commences with James Smith's visual essay "Temporal Dislocation", which explores the contrasting interplay between destruction and regeneration in our interactions with landscapes. Smith's photographic series highlights the recurring patterns of the natural world following human interference, driven by a profound phenomenological perspective. The series bridges the intentional composition by the photographer and the incidental engagement of the viewer with these reconfigured landscapes, positioning the photograph as a subtle form of communication that invites reevaluation of the common and omnipresent.
 "Urban Wilderness: A Journey through Lisbon Terrain Vague" by Lorenzo Iannizzotto focuses on the piecemeal and indeterminate nature of the so-called "Terrain Vague" or "Urban Voids" in Lisbon. Iannizzotto employs photography as a means to explore and articulate these spaces, presenting them in a fragmented and sporadic fashion that honours their intrinsic features. His work uncovers the latent charm of these spaces, highlighting their considerable potential for urban development.

Capturing the Impact: A Photographic Journey Into the Intensive Care Unit During the Covid-19 Pandemic

In this personal account, an intensive care unit nurse reflects on his experience working at a South Carolina hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic and his endeavor to document its impact through photography. Despite initial challenges, the nurse's proposal for a “Public Service Project” was approved by the hospital administration. The project gained national attention through media coverage, highlighting the toll of the virus on patients and health-care professionals. The author aims to break the privacy barrier, shedding light on the realities of COVID-19 and inspiring understanding in the public.

A Photographic Journey to Wonderland: F. Jay Haynes and Yellowstone in the 1880s

A Photographic Journey to Wonderland: F. Jay Haynes and Yellowstone in the 1880s

Photographic Journey in the Lab of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition: An Editorial Call

Photographic Journey in the Lab of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition: An Editorial Call

John Keats as a Medical Student

John Keats (1795-1821), besides being the famous English poet, was a student of medicine at the United Hospitals in London. On the occasion of the bicentenary of his death, we would like to pay tribute to this versatile figure with a photographic itinerary of his medical life. This article, in connection with the project "Himetop - The History of Medicine Topographical Database", retraces objects and places where the poet lived, studied, worked, and prematurely died, showing the importance of material culture. The photographic journey starts in London with the birthplace of the poet and continues through the places of his infancy and youth, the school in Enfield, the lodgings at 8 St. Thomas Street, the United Hospitals, etc. After giving up medicine to devote to poetry, the itinerary proceeds in the Hampstead and, as the ultimate destination, in Rome, where John Keats spent his last months of life due to tuberculosis. To conclude the path at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, where he was buried, surrounded by grass and flowers. The material memories left by John Keats, as well as preserving his memory, take on a significant educational and inspirational role for everybody and, in particular, literary people and medical students.

Evoking Never Never Land: The Importance of Imaginative Play and Creativity

This article is a condensed version of the author’s research which explores the relationship between imaginative play and creativity in education, and examines the structures, approaches, benefits, and obstacles surrounding the topic of imaginative play and creativity. The photo collection is a reflection on the ponderings throughout the author’s project research. Inspired by zoom-in puzzles, a similar approach was taken to the creative representation of pedagogical wonderings through a photographic journey. By looking at things from different vantage points, one can see things in different ways, and, perhaps, experience a sort of catharsis through contemplation of the overlooked in the obvious.

Punjabi Migration to the Black Country: A Photographic Journey through History, Cultures and Digital Technology

Indian migrant workers have been present in the United Kingdom’s county of the West Midlands since the 1930s. Initially, they were mostly men. However, by the 1960s, many of them had married Indian...

An international football match experienced from within a 'working quarantine' – a photographic journey

The Covid pandemic has affected contemporary lives to unprecedented levels, including the world of sports, which have faced training and competition bans, matches and tournaments having been postponed or cancelled. However, the Union of the European Football Associations (UEFA) was keen to continue playing despite the pandemic and staged matches played behind closed doors. Thus, UEFA provided the involved parties with a strict protocol of how to organise and conduct matches in order to protect players and staff from contracting the virus, as well as to limit the risk of spreading the virus. This study provides a visual auto-ethnographical account of a European qualifier match between the women´s national teams of Iceland and Sweden. The match took place in September 2020, in the midst of the second wave of the Covid pandemic which was sweeping through Europe at the time. This visual story illustrates how the Covid pandemic was experienced in a team working quarantine and how it affected the social organisation of the match as shown by established rules and recommendations for human conduct and manifested in new norms of behaviour. The visual story further highlights how the pandemic imposed unprecedented challenges for sport teams to settle the conflicting forces of how to withhold manifested and collective team rituals under such constrains, as for the social organisations, which had to make-up protocols, at short notice, in order to keep the virus at bay. When analysed visually those protocols seemed inconsistent and illogical at times. It can however be argued, that despite those inconsistencies the protocols should be recognised as a responsible act for public welfare as they counter possible public health repercussions associated with such pandemics.

Looking out to see within: A photography project developed by adolescents with cancer during the COVID pandemic.

This photo essay is the story of an artistic project developed for young people with cancer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The program, the Youth Project at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan,1 is dedicated to young patients with cancer 15–25 years old and has the dual aim of optimizing medical care such as ensuring their inclusion in clinical trials, and promoting a holistic approach to their needs, giving these young patients novel ways to express themselves through music, photography, creative writing, and fashion design.2-7 The photography project was conducted entirely through video sessions to comply with the need for physical distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the patients themselves who asked the Youth Project staff to launch this particular project. A professional photographer (Alice Patriccioli) conducted weekly 90-min meetings. After illustrating examples of work done by contemporary artists, she invited the young participants to embark on their own personal pathway, combining the languages of photography, art, and writing as they thought fit. Since the start of the project coincided with the experience of lockdown—of being unable to leave your own room, as was often the case for our patients on treatment, even without the pandemic—the photographer proposed focusing on the window through which we look out on the world (Figure 1). As Camilla wrote: “During a stay in hospital, when you can't enjoy the wind and sun, the best friends for daydreaming are the clouds in the sky. I look outside my window while I'm stuck in bed, and I fly with the clouds.” From the topic of the window, the photographic journey moved on to seeing windows as openings onto the outside world of people and places (Figures 2 and 3), and windows as openings that let in light, revealing what someone has inside (Figures 4–6-4–6). The different topics of the photographic project were selected by staff together with the young patients. During each meeting, a specific topic was proposed and discussed. Then patients were given their “homework”: to conceptualize and take photos on their own. For each topic, participants were asked to take a single picture. At the subsequent meeting, each photo was discussed with the group. The photography project involved 25 patients (median age 18 years, range 14–26 years), 14 of them receiving treatment at the time and 11 in follow-up. All patients (or their parents/legal guardians) gave written informed consent for their involvement in the project and for publication of the images and words. The photographs they produced were used to make a calendar for 2021, and the proceeds of its sales will go toward supporting the activities of the Youth Project. The pictures chosen for the calendar were selected by the patients themselves. For young participants, the project was an opportunity to get together and enjoy some light-hearted moments during the rigors of their therapy, even if it was virtual. The virtual meetings provided an opportunity to overcome the restrictions of physical distancing. In addition, as with the other artistic projects, the young patients enjoyed the opportunity of working with professionals, making them feel unique and special, so important for their self-esteem at this critical and challenging time in their lives. Working on a project expected to take several months also enabled these young people to regain a sense of future at a time when they risk having difficulty perceiving a future beyond their discharge from hospital or next round of treatments. In conclusion, we believe that this experience emphasizes the importance of giving young patients with cancer a chance to freely “voice” their emotions, and helping them process what is happening to them. Using art as a filter can make it a little easier to give vent to strong emotions, while also enabling them to be more genuine and less restrained in expressing their feelings. This ultimately helps our young patients find the resources and the venues they need to cope with the life-changing experience of being diagnosed and treated for cancer in as positive a manner as possible. The authors thank the Associazione Bianca Garavaglia for supporting the Youth Project.

Gazing inside: a photographic journey inside the prison world

Gazing inside: a photographic journey inside the prison world

Bill Monnie, Selma and Its Aftermath: A Photographic Journey. Merrimack, NH: A Snowy Day Distribution and Publishing, 2015. Pp. 169. $27.95 (cloth); $9.95 (eBook).

Bill Monnie, <i>Selma and Its Aftermath: A Photographic Journey</i>. Merrimack, NH: A Snowy Day Distribution and Publishing, 2015. Pp. 169. $27.95 (cloth); $9.95 (eBook).

My Life in Focus: A Photographer's Journey with Elizabeth Taylor and the Hollywood Jet SetGianniBozzacchi with JoeyTaylor. University Press of Kentucky, 2017.

My Life in Focus: A Photographer's Journey with Elizabeth Taylor and the Hollywood Jet SetGianniBozzacchi with JoeyTaylor. University Press of Kentucky, 2017.

Delius and his music

There are many biographies and articles about Frederick Delius's life (1862-1934), but there has never been a comprehensive book about his music until now. Everything he wrote, from his earliest compositions right up to his final works, is analysed here; the history and background of each work and its critical reception are all examined, set against events in Delius's life and the wider musical world. The book contains numerous music examples and quotations from many contemporary newspapers and journals. A complete list of all of Delius's works, with catalogue numbers, and a select bibliography are also provided. MARTIN LEE-BROWNE is the Chairman of The Delius Society, a former Chairman of the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival, and author of The Life & Times of Frederic Austin/ (1996). PAUL GUINERY is a pianist and associate of the Royal College of Music, as well as a former broadcaster for BBC Radio 3 and co-author (with Lyndon Jenkins) of Delius and Fenby, A Photographic Journey (The Delius Society, 2004).

Coming Together in Conference: A Photographic Journey through Academy Annual Meetings in the 20th Century

Coming Together in Conference: A Photographic Journey through Academy Annual Meetings in the 20th Century

The Landscapes of 9/11: A Photographer's Journey. Edward T.Linenthal, JonathanHyman, and ChristianeGruber, eds. austin: university of texas press, 2013. 194 pp.

The Landscapes of 9/11: A Photographer's Journey. Edward T.Linenthal, JonathanHyman, and ChristianeGruber, eds. austin: university of texas press, 2013. 194 pp.

Photographing Faith in Suburbia

This article reflects on the experience and outcome of a collaboration between a photographer, a geographer and six senior citizens from six different faith communities in West London. In 2012 this group collaborated to produce an exhibition ‘Faith in Suburbia: a shared photographic journey’ which was exhibited at a local history museum, at University College London and at the participating places of worship. Drawing on the photographic approach developed by Liz Hingley for her work ‘Under gods: stories for Soho Road’, the participants sought to capture the everyday life and meaning of each other’s places of worship.

A Photographic Journey through Digital Technology in Canadian Performances

This photo essay showcases digitally mediated performances across Canada. Just as books on the subject of digital performance have featured an impressive and varied breadth of shows under that umbrella, like Steve Dixon’s book sporting the same title, this slideshow highlights a diverse range of performances—from zombie-infested augmented reality games to technology-enhanced cooking displays to interactive web games created for theatre festivals. This is not an exhaustive list but rather a sampling of recent productions that, like the other shows discussed in this issue of Canadian Theatre Review, demonstrate how theatre creation is shifting in response to today’s digital media and game-savvy audiences. The journey through these images starts with the use of social media to engage spectators even before they enter the theatre space, moves inside the theatre to productions that use visual and aural media enmeshed with live bodies, and then out again to site-specific performance in real-world and online spaces, which are augmented in evocative ways by digital technologies.