This work entitled New Perspective is a photographic project composed of portraits of tourists taken in the historic center of Prague. Composed of so-called “sharp” photographs where the focus is on individuals as well as so-called “blur” photographs where the focus is deliberately on the background.
The objective of the project is then twofold: firstly, it is a question of identifying a similarity in the choices made by these tourists both on the location of the photoshoot and on the poses chosen and then to take a critical look at tourism mass in Prague. Thus the so-called “sharp” photographs aim to highlight this behavioral analogy of individuals while the so-called “blurry” photographs aim to highlight the element that really represents the interest of the photograph: the context of the historic center of Prague with the focus on the background.
To implement this project, the photographic subjects were not chosen, they themselves requested a paid photo session for a random duration where the blurred photographs were taken without their knowledge. The choice to do this project in a professional context rather than asking ordinary people in the street allows for more natural behavior: individuals are not influenced by the fact of knowing that it is a project photographic particular and do not feel obliged to act accordingly. In addition, being contacted directly by people looking to do a photo shoot also allowed me to produce a greater quantity of photography. In fact, having already contacted people I met in the street as part of photographic projects, I quickly became aware at the start of my project of the difficulty of this procedure.
The idea for this project results from this desire to take a critical look at the uniformity of contemporary mass society through the photographic medium, taking the example of the work of Martin Parr. This project can also be seen as being in line with my Apex project and within the framework of my master's thesis entitled Consumption of photography in a digital world: the case of mass photography and questioning the place of mass photography in the contemporary society.
