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Playing Myself/Selves: The Unknowing of Autobiographical Photographic Self-Portraits
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Author(s): Richard T. Sawdon Smith (Norwich University of the Arts, UK)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 30
Source title:
Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mark Bruce Nigel Ingham (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Nela Milic (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Vasileios Kantas (University of West Attica, Greece), Sara Andersdotter (University for the Creative Arts, Sweden)and Paul Lowe (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch006
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Abstract
For nearly three decades, the author has used photography to develop a personal narrative that tells the story of living with HIV. Now with a normal life expectancy, the author is rewriting the self in the author's project “The Unknowing...X” to think about what the future could hold. This has involved a form of playing previous selves and personas that have been inhabited through the years, by delving into a massive dressing up box collected throughout the author's life. The author introduces examples of previous photography projects to set the foundations of an autoethnographic practice, then indicates the departure in process that led to the new work, developing a methodology based on play and ‘not knowing'. This new process is called ‘unknowing' and has led to a subconscious act of image making, drawing on previous lives lived, memories, and the influences that have shaped the author's practice and world to produce photographic self-portraits that are the most autobiographical to date.
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