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Investigating My Personal Experience Through A Narrative Generated Through Photographic Texts

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Introdution
My research will be conducted through autoethnography, since it aims to investigate my personal experience while immersed in the land, and create a narrative generated through photographic texts. These images aim to present the encounter between photographer and the land. They reveal traces from both the land and the photographer, they mirror this moment when this both actors became united. It shows both the eye of the photographer and all his studium , while present also the eyes of the land, looking at me.

The exposition of this personal experience extend our understand about creative practices and the land, this immersion, this methodology, this creative practice and reflection will also contribute for a more broad social …show more content…

Practice-led researcher in the field of Art & Design usually requires practitioners to analyse their creative practice and to investigate the processes that are research components and the responsable elements that helps to flourish new knowledge. This brings ethnography to the spotlight, and Pace (2012, p.2) states that “gaining momentum as a research method within the creative and performing arts, partly because of the opportunity it provides for writers, artists, performers and others to reflect critically upon their personal and professional creative experiences.”

Landspace and authoethnography
This research seeks to discover a personal experience, a unique relationship between the researcher’s self and land codified in an image, presented through an evocative authoethnographic photowriting narrative . It is concerned with an evocative form of the methodology because it focuses with the photographers’ experience in the land, and according to “evocative autoethnography aims toward researchers’ introspection on a particular topic to allow readers to make a connection with the researchers’ feelings and experiences.

It asks the potential of photographs to represent a bond between the photographer’ s self and the land with photographic texts that

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