- 31 Mar, 2021
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Workshop 4 – Communicating Science Through and With Photographs
1. Please answer the following questions in 1-2 sentences each.
a. What is the context of the gallery you have selected – i.e. contest, “best of,” etc. – and how might that shape your expectations and interpretations?
b. What is the media source or organization providing the gallery and how is that relevant to your interpretation?
c. Who is the photographer(s) and is any information provided about them?
d. What is the area(s) of science being represented in the photographs and how might that shape your expectations as a viewer?
e. Briefly, how are the images titled and captioned? How does that shape your expectations?
2. Select a single image from your gallery and analyze it according to Gillian Rose’s framework. Make appropriate use of other course materials in the analysis (Expected length: approx. 4-6 paragraphs).
3. Consider your gallery of images as a whole. What analytic observations can you make about their cumulative or collective impact/effect? In other words, what work are these images doing as a group? You may want to think about such issues as technology, evidence, witnessing, affect, narratives, objectivity, models of public understanding of science, fiction, art, etc. (Expected length: approx. 2-4 paragraphs)