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Circulating Authority #Hurricane Sandy '12
Most recently, her Circulating Authority:#Hurricane Sandy project considered the trending Instagram photo app as a new source of journalism. She created reconstructed images of the effects of Hurricane Sandy by alternating rings of photographs she took on her Instagram and on her DSLR. Yim examines the effect Instagram has on the traditional meaning of authority, truth and photography, conducting most of her research on the photo app itself to locate sites of hurricane destruction and going out to these locations to shoot. The rings correspond to the physical form of the hurricane as well as the circulative nature of photojournalistic authority, an authority that no longer strictly belongs to professional photojournalists. She presents this critical natural disaster through a deconstruction of photojournalism, contrasting dissimilar aesthetics and moods of the Instagram and DSLR shots. Ultimately, this destabilizes established truths and asks viewers to not just passively study one conventional truth, but multiple depictions of truth and forms of authority.
Circulating Authority #Hurricane Sandy '12
Most recently, her Circulating Authority:#Hurricane Sandy project considered the trending Instagram photo app as a new source of journalism. She created reconstructed images of the effects of Hurricane Sandy by alternating rings of photographs she took on her Instagram and on her DSLR. Yim examines the effect Instagram has on the traditional meaning of authority, truth and photography, conducting most of her research on the photo app itself to locate sites of hurricane destruction and going out to these locations to shoot. The rings correspond to the physical form of the hurricane as well as the circulative nature of photojournalistic authority, an authority that no longer strictly belongs to professional photojournalists. She presents this critical natural disaster through a deconstruction of photojournalism, contrasting dissimilar aesthetics and moods of the Instagram and DSLR shots. Ultimately, this destabilizes established truths and asks viewers to not just passively study one conventional truth, but multiple depictions of truth and forms of authority.