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GRADUATE
PHOTOGRAPHY
ONLINE 2020

Pamela Gomez

Aesthetics of poverty

This project explores the subordinated position that Indigenous peoples occupy in the contemporary image. I am interested in exposing the mechanisms through which historical heritage operates simultaneously as emancipatory resistance and neo-colonial oppression. I have long observed how people’s first perception of a photograph of an indigenous family evokes an impression of poverty. Tellingly, this is the case even when the photograph depicts a wealthy family as their indigenous clothing appears to be enough to situate them in a place of marginality. I claim that our complex personalities are largely eclipsed, if not completely ignored, by our ethnic features in western representation. Complexity is replaced by the stereotypes attached to indigeneity.

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Current Course:

University of Westminster  MA Photography Arts

Maria Ahmed • Philippa Bloomfield • Aina Maria Cantallops Cifre • Danyi Feng • Pamela Gomez • Megan Rose Goodwin • Alan Knox • Myrto Kyritsi • Weiyu Lin • Renáta Liszi • Bob Marsden • Iana Mizguina • Iris Papasava • Marta Poncelas • Lynsie Roberts • Justyna Solnica • Gisela Torres • Huiying YUE • Yifan Yang • Eclair Ziping Liu •

Courses:

University for the Creative Arts
MFA Photography

Falmouth University
MA Photography

London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography

Royal College of Art
MA Photography

Ulster University
MFA Photography

University of Westminster
MA Photography Arts

University of Westminster
MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism

Categories:

Documentary/Photojournalism

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Landscape

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Portraiture

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Staged/Constructed

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Urban/Suburban Landscape

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