The Landscape of Leisure project relates to the following research questions:
Photographic Culture: the burden of history, photography, geo politics and otherness
Imagined Geographies: photography, tourism and regeneration
Local V Visitor: fairly traded photography, truth and ethics
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Microsoft removing Imagined Geographies?
Just came across an interesting paper that focuses on their still in development software PhotoSynth. You can read the paper and also see the TED lecture on PhotoSynth in the links below but just have a quick think as well about the possibilties for this to remove the postcard perfect images most people have in [...]
Tourism and Photography Conference
In July 2003 there was a conference in Sheffield, UK, on Tourism and Photography. Anouska Komlosy of St Andrews university presented a paper on Photography, Ethnic Tourism and Self Representation. Just reading the abstract it presents an interesting idea of the ethics of using images as tourist propaganda, very much fitting in with imagined geographies [...]
