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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Italy | Thursday, July 4, 2013 | 3 photos

I actually didn't intend to participate in this contest, but after I returned from a trip to italy I decided to compile a few photographs I took during an afternoon on a beach in Sardinia. Before going to Italy I had jus finished my MA thesis about tourism and migration and how those two forms of human mobility interrelate, come across each other and how sometimes they even overlap (for example when thinking about retirement migration or work-and-travel experiences). After taking these pictures I talked to some of the men who were selling souvenirs and I learned that most of them where ('undocumented') migrants.

In a few weeks I will start my PhD and it is my aim to combine theory and critical thinking about society with a practical implementation. I will continue traveling and dealing with different forms of human mobility, therefore I wish to develop my artistic work beyond a 'mere touristic gaze' that only seeks to capture the exotic or beautiful 'Other', instead I want to produce thought provoking imagery that tells stories, discloses stereotypes and shakes up the status-quo.