Having been a student at university of a year and a half now and having moved away from home and currently living with my friends, depicting the reality of what it’s actually like because although this big change in our lives is huge and it’s a big stepping stone into adulthood, it’s also a very scary change and my images aim to portray what this change living away from home and being independent for the first time is really like by focusing on student life and Millennial culture depicting the struggles and realities of living away from home and with your friends for the first time and actually becoming an independent young adult.
“In the 1920s, when Monholy-Nagy commented on the future importance of camera literacy, he could hardly have anticipated the extent to which photographic imagery would come to permeate contemporary communications” (Wells,2015:13). This suggests that in recent years, audio-visual technology such as photography and film are having such a big impact on our world today as it is constantly changing how we interpret the world.
References:
Wells, L. 2015, Photography: a critical introduction, Routledge, Abington
