Research through the lens
Natalie Samson,
University Affairs,
Jun 28, 2023
Photos and research go hand in hand. That's why I've often paired my photos with my presentation materials. As this story notes, "Photo contests are gaining in popularity as a powerful way to share and promote research." But I don't think this article quite captures the relationship. I don't just mean the competitive aspect when they say "photo contests are gaining in popularity as a powerful way to share and promote research." Lots of photographers enter contests, even me, though I don't win. No, it's this: "faculty, students, staff and alumni are invited to submit images depicting university-affiliated research." When you reduce the photo to depicting - that is, representing something else - then much of the expressive capacity of the photo is lost. If it were me, I would ask for photos associated with research, thus allowing the photo to be of something else entirely, but saying something consonant with the research being described. Then the 120-word caption can describe the research, and the photo can speak for itself.
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