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.
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