Folding Views

Inspiration

• Origami• Semi-Permanent• Photo-Journalism

• “Exaggerate, Suppress, Omit” AndreThorez

The Object

• Original Caption: "Affluent Lebanese drive down the street to look at a destroyedneighbourhood 15 August 2006 in southern Beirut, Lebanon.” Spencer Platt

• Misconceptions and Realities- Image Neatly summarises Lebanon’s Contradictions - Glamour amidst the destruction”

Views/ Characteristics

• Views/Characteristics– Photographer: “The picture challenges our notion of what a victim is meant to look

like. These people are not victims, they look strong, they're full of youth.”

– Car and its Owner: Grassroots relief organisation

– Phone photographer: “In Lebanon, everyone tries to look glamourous, the poorand the rich”

– Jad Maroun (driver): “they expect the area to be full of veiled women, to bedirty and impoverish

– Nour Nasser (Outsider); “it reflects only part of lebanon. We are part of theworking class and we can afford some things… but not everyone here can

My Role

Encapsulate ideals of photojournalism

Create awareness around photograph

Share appreciation for the art form