Vacation Pics is series of photographs in which the visual image has been removed. Attached to each photograph is an audio description of the scene portrayed. This series considers how vacation photographs are a system of classifying and ordering the vacation experience giving the photographer control over the unknown. The visited country can then be understood from the photographer's perspective.

It also pokes funs at our contemporary image-saturated culture. Describing orally the scene in detail including sensations felt by the other senses and denying the visual draws attention to Western over-reliance upon the visual. We prefer to see an image than only rely upon oral description when being told about an unknown place or experience. In this era of social media, it is argued that lived moments become Kodak moments and our lives become a series of photographs as opposed to lived experiences.
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Vacation Pics is series of photographs in which the visual image has been removed. Attached to each photograph is an audio description of the scene portrayed. This series considers how vacation photographs are a system of classifying and ordering the vacation experience giving the photographer control over the unknown. The visited country can then be understood from the photographer's perspective.
It also pokes funs at our contemporary image-saturated culture. Describing orally the scene in detail including sensations felt by the other senses and denying the visual draws attention to Western over-reliance upon the visual. We prefer to see an image than only rely upon oral description when being told about an unknown place or experience. In this era of social media, it is argued that lived moments become Kodak moments and our lives become a series of photographs as opposed to lived experiences.
www.alexandramajerus.com

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