Tag: photography

Project 1: The Turmoil within a Vagabond (or Flaneur) – Progress

  Drawing inspiration from a few photographers – mainly focusing on street photography, I ventured out to the south of Singapore to take photographs, hoping that I’d find quiet, empty spaces and crowded areas as well.   I came up with three possible reasons why we question where we truly belong, and linked these into possible scenarios.   Crowded, Semi-crowded,… Read more →

Project 1: The Turmoil within a Vagabond – Concept Creation

“How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?” ― Mark Peter Hughes, Lemonade Mouth   Here’s to tackling a topic that has been influencing me for a long time now. Where is home? And I don’t necessarily mean to ask where one’s address is. What I mean is… When,… Read more →

Props As Signifier

Semiotics explore the idea of creating a deeper meaning on an object, where as the signifier is the object at surface level and the signified is the object that has an implied meaning bestowed upon it, depending on the way it is being portrayed. For an experiment in class to explore this concept further, I decided to bring a fan… Read more →

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