Oliver Chanarin: "There is no such thing as conceptual photography... all photography is conceptual and then all photography is not conceptual".
Lucy Soutter: "All contemporary art photography is conceptual to some degree, so the question is what isn't conceptual photography?".
These two above quotes really stuck out to me during this video piece.I found this video very informative and thought provoking. It really made me think about the labels we give to things and how sometimes the labels aren't entirely representative of the things their designed to portray. In addition to this, another thing that stuck out to me was the 'abstract' project in Afghanistan entitled 'The day nobody died'. It's inception was developed when the two artists were judging the world press photography awards. They explained that they looked at 18,000 images in 4days (of the Afghanistan & Vietnam war) and that they were shocked by the similarity of the images being produced. Consequently, they were concerned about the repetition of cliches that were represented as 'legitimate' photography.
This made me think about how much a photograph of an event has to represent an event in order to be considered 'legitimate'.
I also think this piece speaks about the state of contemporary photography in terms of the freedom, control and censorship process that happens with the government and various advertising agencies, editors and photojournalists. This was a piece that really made me think.
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