The Peacock Junction

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.178043

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Photography, Landscape, Essay, Color, Post-colonialism

Abstract

This essay presents images and texts that depict the contemporary landscape of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. In early January of 2020, as a result of an educational experience at an Indian academic institute, I conducted a visual research by which I deemed landscape photography an immersion procedure in space to reflect on the territory and its representations. During its development, once the landscape reveals itself as a space for interaction, the genre of landscape photography juxtaposes complex relationships that go beyond a simple transcription of nature. It expands the idea of landscape mainly through the transformation caused by its inhabitants, the presence of the observer, the off-camera and its historical representations.

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  • Marcelo Artioli Schellini, Vellore Institute of Technology

    Marcelo Schellini is PhD in Visual Poetics of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Master Degree in Studies of Visual Culture by the University of Barcelona, Spain and Bachelor of Photography by Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial de São Paulo (SENAC-SP). In 2015, he was granted the Exchange Schoolarship Program of CAPES and studied for one year in Egypt, attending Al-Azhar University and courses in Islamic calligraphy. His work develops towards the discovery of subjective cartography of the world, deliberately in search of crossing territorial and language boundaries. Currently, he is a professor of Photography and Design at the VIT University Vellore - India. E-mail: marcelo.schellini@vit.ac.in 

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Published

2021-04-26

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021)

Section

Gesture, image and sounds

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Schellini, Marcelo Artioli. 2021. “The Peacock Junction”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 6 (1): e-178043. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.178043.