Shutter Performance
For my project, I decided to focus on the ways in which a camera’s presence can change the atmosphere it is trying to capture, specifically so one with subjects. I was very interested in the phenomenon of the observers’ paradox, which attributes the way a person may act differently in certain contexts to the knowledge that someone is watching them. I was especially interested in the way people can put up a front and become someone else entirely at the blink of an eye. My project touches on the ability of human beings to alter the way they allow for the world to perceive them very easily.
For my project, I decided to focus on the ways in which a camera’s presence can change the atmosphere it is trying to capture, specifically so one with subjects. I was very interested in the phenomenon of the observers’ paradox, which attributes the way a person may act differently in certain contexts to the knowledge that someone is watching them. I was especially interested in the way people can put up a front and become someone else entirely at the blink of an eye. My project touches on the ability of human beings to alter the way they allow for the world to perceive them very easily.