To fully understand this topic I need to define contemporary photography and contemporary issues.
Contemporary Photography
The word itself comes from the Latin "con" (=with) and "temporarius " (=of the time, from "tempus", time) and has the same meaning as modern.
So contemporary photography is modern photography.
But as is the case with modern paintings, contemporary usually refers to absract or unusual work.
Just as a painter living today and painting classical landscapes is not considered contemporary in some circles, so does photography;
"contemporary photography" tends to mean the abstract or unusual and not all of today's photographic work.
In that sense, a photographer doing work similar to Ansel Adams will in most cases not be called contemporary.
(sourced from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081123040209AA82YgP)
Contemporary Issues
These are issues that have some relevance to the present.
Issues such as:
- International Conflict
- Terrorism
- Pollution & Waste Management
- Natural Resources & Energy Conservation
- Urban Development
- Bioethics
- Market & Workforce Globalization
- Mobile Technology & Communications
- Information Management and Security
as well as many more.
Focus for this project
This project is based around everything contemporary. Contemporary photography, contemporary issues, contemporary ways of taking photographs, contemporary ways of communicating and sharing photographs.
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