Photograph and Image: a Discovery of Site

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the study of sites through modes of experiential site analysis. With the acknowledgement that all sites present unique conditions in the world, how might one’s experience of a site through observation and capturing of the site inform design? Photography, being one of the most common tools of site analysis, is redefined within this process. In this thesis, the camera becomes the eye, moving along with the body, unconcerned with composition or beauty. The camera is the objective lens of my subjective eye, creating tracings of experiences that can be reentered and redefined. Memory of a place becomes visual and experiential again through this process. And by taking up photography, I first attempt to understand its history in the way is has changed our vision and the way we look at things.