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Proposed entry for the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Student Focus Competition
Proposed entry for the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Student Focus Competition
This was my proposed entry for the WPO 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Student Focus Competition; ultimately it was not submitted for judging (only one student per course got to do so).
This year's brief asked participants to create an image for the front page of a newspaper. It could be about anything and set anywhere, so long as it would draw attention to a current issue and tell a story.
My idea was to portray the slow decay of social relations and first-hand experiences of one's surroundings in favour of individual, media-driven activities. The image plays with the well-known symbolism of the three wise monkeys ("see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil") but overturns its concept to portray a more tongue-in-cheek critique of modern society. In fact, the persons are not denying the acts of seeing, speaking or hearing per se, but those very acts become mediated by interfaces instead. This results in people no longer being able to experience things directly, preferring to filter them through technological devices, which in turn leads to a progressive detachment from reality and isolation from one-another.
