What do you look at? Who or what looks at you?
Throughout my two weeks in Cuba in January I thought about these questions--and many more--centered on the concept of glancing, looking, eyeing, gazing. The gaze: how it changes the scenery, the context of an image and what of the person creating the image or experience and the subject(s) of that image?
Looking is often sexual. It is definitely political, influential, powerful and, with practice, it is liberating. Looking is, above all, irrevocably human.
More questions I have about lookers and looking:
When is looking harmful?
How can I (or we) avoid harming others with our gaze?
What kinds of gazes are there?
Can we control how we look at someone?
What does it mean to be looked at?
How do people change when they are looked at?
Why do lookers look?
What are the benefits to looking? What is the purpose or mission for any given looker?
Thanks for staying tuned. Coming up:
1) More portraits and insights from Cuba and other parts of the world.
2) My original video about a cultural exchange between U.S. students and Cuban people, and the diplomatic relations that are implicated in the students' consumption of Cuban dance.
Throughout my two weeks in Cuba in January I thought about these questions--and many more--centered on the concept of glancing, looking, eyeing, gazing. The gaze: how it changes the scenery, the context of an image and what of the person creating the image or experience and the subject(s) of that image?
Looking is often sexual. It is definitely political, influential, powerful and, with practice, it is liberating. Looking is, above all, irrevocably human.
More questions I have about lookers and looking:
When is looking harmful?
How can I (or we) avoid harming others with our gaze?
What kinds of gazes are there?
Can we control how we look at someone?
What does it mean to be looked at?
How do people change when they are looked at?
Why do lookers look?
What are the benefits to looking? What is the purpose or mission for any given looker?
Thanks for staying tuned. Coming up:
1) More portraits and insights from Cuba and other parts of the world.
2) My original video about a cultural exchange between U.S. students and Cuban people, and the diplomatic relations that are implicated in the students' consumption of Cuban dance.