Following a conversation with my tutor, I decided due the fact assignment 5 requires some kind of visual presentation, that my original idea of text written was maybe not what was required by the examiners.
I feel my initial concept of how the "digital footprint" creates problems as life progresses for individuals as their life changes, may not be the perfect choice for this assignment; due to the style of presentation required.
Though I believe it holds more importance within the digital photographic era we have entered than producing a slide show/ video presentation etc of a subject with less depth and relevance. I have to comment on the fact, that I believe a constant factor of DI&C has been where the really important parts of the digital era have been touched upon but not in any depth. The designers of this degree have viewed this subject just aesthetically and in some parts not even from a photographically point of view. Choosing instead to produce audio visual work, often choosing style over substance.
This is a photography degree and in parts I believe has lost its focus and direction, in an attempt to incorporate too many minor factors at the loss of relevance. I apolagise if my opinions conflict with the examiners, but I have always tried to be honest and neutral in all my professional photography, both in theory and production.
For it is not wrong to produce work based in the present without utilising previous research created 10 years ago for example, when the market and art are changing on an almost weekly basis. Photography has a very "gritty" almost "unspoken dirty" side, which the digital format, with instant images available every minute of the day , becomes a public diary of our daily moods. Our mistakes, which sometimes have serious and permanent affects. It is having a massive effect on the under 30's generation allowing subjects viewed daily to create changes in behaviour, sexuality, familiarisation, suicide , mental illness. In short photography is in fact changing the complete outlook and major aspects of future generations to come in an often serious life changing forms.
On many occassions throughout this degree, we have constantly viewed photography as "art". The origins of photographers repeating in format what painters created prior to photography. The course covered slightly obscure but interesting variants such as art galleries and the power of curators etc , exhibitions of "artists" producing "art" from the work of other photographers for their own accreditation. In my opinion the course should have included the view photography is changing from a form of art to a visual diary displayed on multiple platforms taking the control of ownership and display away from the photographer but to the rest of the world. In greater detail. For it is where we are currently and the direction in which we seem to be traveling.