Studio 5
UN/staging the UN/staged

Photo studio 5 considered image making through a critical lens that set out to challenge the binary distinction between photographic works that are considered staged and those works that are considered unstaged. The studio reflected on notions of the authentic, the indexical and the document. Students considered how these perceived representations of the real interact with other ideas and concepts they were introduced to, such as the dialogic, performative and relational producers of meaning within the medium, as well as the roles of memory and perception in the interpretation of images.