2026-04-20 17:20 UTC
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Most of you here know me as a writer, but first (and maybe foremost) I am a photographer. And on that note, I have an announcement.
There is a philosophical tradition that insists we are not vessels moving through the world separate from it, but instead in continuous exchange with it. The places we move through, the weather we stand in, the land we work on and shape, the social forces we encounter. They get in, they change us. We are made of them
#Photography #Art #Scotland #Artist
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@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot 2026-04-20 17:21
2/ I have been thinking about what that means for how I make images. Within photography, black, brown, and mixed-race bodies are often placed within landscapes to signify identity, presence and belonging. While such images have been important and have opened important conversations about visibility, they often remain symbolic: the body appears within the image usually centrally in the frame, but the forces that shape it remain outside the frame. Unrecognised, unknown.
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@aho@ioc.exchange 2026-04-21 06:50
@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot this photo makes me think of the soviet space probes they sent to Venus.