Thursday, February 12, 2009

How to photograph a heterotopia

When I say walk around New Brunswick and photograph heterotopias, what I actually mean are spaces that are "time out of time" and "place out of place"... which, in Foucault's terms, are parks, contained spaces, mirror reflections, prisons and insane asylums (but I doubt anyone is photographing these), hospitals (maybe), schools (maybe), but in general, things in everyday life that seem like contained, separate spaces.

It is interesting to see what you glean from the reading and how you interpret this in your photographs. This is actually quite challenging but I just made your life a lot easier by giving you these hints.