zak akhimien, social media manager, getty images

What is your passion?

On Photography

Storytelling

‘In domestic culture, photography conventionally has a place as a time

machine, a device for remembering.’

David Bate, The memory of photography

The Rise of the Amateur

Mobile Technology

‘The iPhone is the snaphot camera of today.’

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

Photo Communities

‘Individuals articulate their identity as social beings not only

by taking and storing photographs to document their lives,

but by participating in communal photographic exchanges that

mark their identity as interactive producers and consumers of culture.’

Jose van Dijck,

Digital Photography: Communication, Identity, Memory

Social Photography

‘To live is to be photographed, to have a record of one’s life,

and therefore to go on with one’s life oblivious or claiming to be oblivious, to

the camera’s nonstop attention.’

Susan Sontag, Regarding the torture of others

‘Pictures become more like spoken language as photographs

turn into the new currency for social interaction.’

Jose van Dijck,

Digital Photography: Communication, Identity, Memory

‘… the act of taking a photograph is no longer about the image at all, it’s

about participation.’

Richard Banks, Microsoft Research

Collaboration

Real-time trends

Questions?