Outsider

08 May 2011

Arne de Knegt, From the series Humanising the Machine

An outsider may be a person, a community, an imagined subject or space that can be perceived as ‘isolated’, ‘alienated’ or ‘unique’ in some way. The ‘Outsider’ may even be defined in terms of the unfamiliar, outcaste, unusual, transient and temporary. The ‘Outsider’ can also be about creating a parallel form of consciousness about a subject in the form of documentary photography, a fictional narrative, or what one may consider ‘art photography’, with constructive liberties taken using digital collage or even a digital transformation/manipulation of the photograph.

With participation from Pix-Team_Lucida

EDITORIAL

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From a Gurgaon high-rise, a zoom collapses the distance between camera and migrant construction workers, etching them as symbolic labourers on a Brechtian stage, fragile silhouettes alienated from the very structures they have created. Nearness and distance as spatial phenomena capable of...

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