Photography is about framing

When thinking about frames, my mind automatically visualise the physical outskirts of an image. But this week, I’ve learned that framing means much more deeper than that. It is also about the image composition itself and how an image is constructed the way it is through visual codes. It is just what we are doing when taking a photograph. From the readings that we did for this week, my favourite quote from the readings so far is that “Photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe” (Sontag). We all have different perspectives on each certain image and it is up to us how we interpret those visual compositions. “They are a grammar and more importantly and ethics of seeing”. With this being said, framing acts as a guidelines and a “position of thinking” (Frampton, 2006). Therefore, while working on my 50 frames in this week 2, it has implanted in my mind that the subjects in my photographs has an allegory. For example, the photograph of the origami jar that I took may be interpreted that the artist of the origami is Japanese, having it originated from Japan. But it can also mean that a passionate origami maker, not necessarily from Japan, has created the colourful mixture of origami papers. Its allegory also leads into a perception that it is about a journey of a person who loves colourful and brightness life setting.

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