Photography and new media for changeSanjana Hattotuwa

TED Fellow

Painted revolutionsCapturing revolutions of yesteryear

French revolutionDelacroix

French revolution'Assault on the Tuileries'

American revolutionWashington Crossing the Delaware

Peninsular WarSpain, 1808

Shooting revolutionsCapturing revolutions today

EgyptJanuary 2011

TunisiaJanuary 2011

LibyaAugust 2011

SyriaJune 2011

IranJune 2009

What’s changed?

Democratisation of skill

Hard

Easy

Economy of time

Long

Quick

A wider public

Rich, few, local

Free, many, global

More produced

Few a year, after years

Hundreds a minute, immediately

Citizen produced

Professional, few, expensive

Amateur, many, ubiquitous

Better produced

Boulevard du Temple, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, 1839

Finer resolution

A dying camera?Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros was one of two Western photographers killed in Libya

Amateur camerasMobile phones in Syria

“The best camera is the One That’s with You. Images aren’t about dynamic ranges and megapixels. They’re

about stories and moments.”

~ Chase Jarvis

Mobile witnesses & mobiles witness

http://www.18daysinegypt.com

Camera optional?Photography via mobiles

How popular?Mobile phones or digital cameras on Flickr?

Apple’s iPhone

Apple’s iPhone

Evolution of a camera

2007 2011

1,000 words in a click means...

Questioning propagandaChanging the discourse

http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl

Bearing witness

http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl

Documenting dissent

http://www.movingimages.asia

Reframing the ordinary

http://www.movingimages.asia

Hidden people

http://groundviews.org/2010/05/29/the-big-stink-in-sri-lanka

Civic education

http://www.womenandmedia.net/options/?p=395

Communicating poverty

JR’s activist photographyPublic in public

JR’s activist photography

Public in public

JR’s activist photographyPublic on public

http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html

Turning the world inside out

#OccupyColombo @ 6.17pm 100% of 99% missing. Who actually came? Comprehensive #fail Only walkers and joggers here #lka pic.twitter.com/AJEjTQEI

Real time engagement

Facebook the new Flickr?

Facebook the new Flickr?

On average, over 250 million photos are uploaded a day, or over 6 billion per month.

There are over 90 billion photos total on Facebook.

47 years to go through, one second per photo.

By far, the largest photos site on the Internet.

Tablets and mobiles are driving creation and consumption

Post PC world

500px iPad app

Consumption increase

Guardian iPad app

Consumption increase

Point & shoot vs. mobiles (iPhone 4S)

Converging devices

http://grassrootsmapping.org

Microsoft Photosynth

New ways of seeing

It’s not the tech

Groundviews iPhone app

YOU matter

Thank yousanjanah@gmail.com

Photo sources & credits

• Slide 1, Vikalpa, http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl

• Slide 2, Image from Martha Marshall, http://artistsjournal.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/wet-paint/

• Slide 3, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People

• Slide 4, Image from http://cultureandstuff.com/2011/08/13/marie-antoinette-on-trial-your-cut-out-and-keep-guide-to-reading-the-trial-part-1/

• Slide 5, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington's_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River

• Slide 6, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War

• Slide 7, Image from http://www.createandshare.net/tag/spanish-revolution

Photo sources & credits

• Slide 8, Image from http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/48631/egyptian-activists-kiss-soldiers-and-riot-police-strike-blows-against-tyrants-everywhere/. See commentary here http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/egypt-why-the-kiss-picture-is-so-radical/70518/

• Slide 9, Image from http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2011/01/women-in-tunisias-revolution/

• Slide 10, Image from http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya

• Slide 11, Image from http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/8157/56/Una-multitud-de-indignados-protestaron-en-un-millar-de-ciudades-por-todo-el-mundo.html

• Slide 12, Image from http://vorige.nrc.nl/article2277072.ece

Photo sources & credits

• Slide 21, Image from http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/21/6503987-in-memory-of-photojournalist-chris-hondros

• Slide 22, image from http://www.projectuprising.org/

• Slide 23, image from http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/06/social-media-documentary-makers

• Slide 26, image from http://panamoz.com/index.php/catalog/product/gallery/image/2923/id/1193/

• Slide 27, image from http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/gallery/item/Nokia_E521.php

• Slide 30, image from http://www.cultofmac.com/125823/iphone-4s-outshines-many-high-end-compact-cameras-says-camera-creator/iphone_camera_improvements-728-75/

Photo sources & credits

• Slide 32, image from http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/

• Slide 33, image from http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl

• Slide 34, image from http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl

• Slide 35, image from http://www.movingimages.asia

• Slide 36, image from http://www.movingimages.asia

• Slide 37, image from http://groundviews.org/2010/05/29/the-big-stink-in-sri-lanka

• Slide 38, image from http://www.womenandmedia.net/options/?p=395

Photo sources & credits

• Slide 43, image from http://twitter.com/#!/groundviews/status/129903570228232193/photo/1

• Slide 46, image from http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/05/05/remember-the-milk-releases-intuitive-yet-powerful-ipad-app/

• Slide 50, image courtesy Apple, http://www.apple.com/iphone/built-in-apps/camera.html

• Slide 55, image from http://walyou.com/president-barack-obama-newspaper-headlines-collage/