New Strategies | Interactive Portraits
Interactive portrait by Ashima Yadava
It is now easy to show someone you have portrayed the photograph and ask: Does this photograph represent who you are? Please explain.
Then simply record the person’s voice and add it to the photograph (or transcribe the response to text) so that the interested reader can then click and hear or read how the subject responds. This can be useful for all kinds of portraits, including those of people who may have less power in society, such as those who are old, homeless, immigrants, etc.
This kind of collaborative portrait can also be made remotely over Zoom or Facetime. One can also ask for a response from one’s subject days, weeks or even years after the portrait was made.
Please see the accompanying Interactive Portraits, made by students from different countries in response to class assignments that I gave.
Interactive portrait by Oscar B. Castillo
Interactive portrait by Becca Screnock
To read
- The Lens Keeps on Looking: Guy Tillim in an interview with Peter Geimer
- Image & Peace
- ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ – photographers from the country put on a compelling show
- These Are the First 100% AI-Generated Stock Photos of People
- Witnesses: 50 years of Doctors Without Borders | Magnum Photos
- How photography and storytelling can turn apathy into climate action by Cristina Mittermeier
- A.I. Is Not A-OK by Maureen Down
To view
- VIDEO: Exiting the Photographic Universe
- VIDEO: Synthetic Media: How deepfakes could soon change our world
- EXHIBITION: In Ukraine
- EXHIBITION: The Protest and Recuperation
- EXHIBITION: Dawoud Bey An American Project
- VIDEO: Fascism in America
- EXHIBITION: David Goldblatt Strange Instrument Curated By Zanele Muholi In Collaboration with Yancey Richardson Gallery