Reproduction

“Art is whatever you can get away with.”

This is so far my favorite McLuhan quote. I kept this idea in mind during my photo shooting process. I chose not to use a camera as I intended, and used my phone instead. To me, photography is also a way to keep the memory, and memorable moments don’t always happen when you have a camera in hand. I’ve always enjoyed taking pictures on my phone, and going back to look through those pictures from time to time. Whenever I tell a story to a friend, or talk simply about something from back home, I’d always pull out my phone and find a picture of the time from my album. And I love having some sort of evidence of my past with me for reference, or just for keepsake. This time, I tried to do something as natural as possible, and take pictures that are as “me” as possible. A lot of them are not in perfect focus, nor have fancy color effects. 

Like I said, it's not in focus, but it is a reproduction of what I saw and how I felt at the moment

I really tackled with the idea of "reproduction" and I want to present a new angle of looking at the place we all live in, and the city that is often seen as dull and boring. I want to look at things people don’t usually look at, in a way that people don’t usually do. All the pictures are taken in the city of Appleton, obviously, and a lot of them are taken on the Lawrence campus. So I want to ask you all to guess where they were taken, and think about how things can look completely different, even unrecognizable, when you look from a different angle, through a different lens.

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Annnnd Here it comes my daily Tarkovsky film

What is real and what is reproduction?