Author: Stephen Mayes
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The New Colonialism of the Digital Image
The emergence of the digital economy might appear to be a matter of secondary significance, just another incidental inflection in the history of our lives. But a closer look reveals a tectonic repositioning of our culture and the economy redefining the social, cultural, and epistemic ground on which we stand.
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Photography is dead – Long Live The Image
It is no longer possible to understand the modern digital image using only the reference points that we once applied to analogue photography. We are looking at something very different and we need to see through the seductive similarity to the photograph.
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Truth, The First Casualty
Conflict photography considered as bellwether for the dawning understanding of digital imagery as a new medium
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Everyday Tomorrow
New technologies are bringing new ways to look at the world
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Positive Lives
Responses to HIV & AIDS 1993 ~ 2018: Memory is not at issue. Rather it is our innate psychology that we all carry within us that will cause this and other catastrophes to repeat, and against which we must maintain permanent personal vigilance.
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The Next Revolution In Photography
Just as there’s a time to stop talking about girls and boys and to talk instead about women and men so it is with photography; something has changed so radically that we need to talk about it differently, think of it differently and approach it differently.
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Toward A New Documentary Expression
The role of the ancient storyteller wasn’t to relay facts but to impart greater truths: archetypes, emotions, political structures, and the nature of human experience. It’s only recently that we’ve conflated storytelling and factual reporting
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