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The Aesthetics of Ethics
Creator	Ana Luísa Moura
Year	2015
Bio	Ana Luísa Moura (PT) has a background in Architecture / Urban Planning and is currently exploring means of visual storytelling and strategic illustration. Her research focuses on photographical protocols within media imagery, regarding in particular the instrumentalization of vulnerability and personal exposure.
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The installation follows a research on the way social trouble is perceived through photography and on what this protocol of representation might say about citizenship, ethical concern or political consciousness. The project attempts to address the topic from the point of view of social inter-surveillance and to explore the amount of information present in casual photography as a map of human value.

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-The Aesthetics of Ethics is a reflection on the way social documentary photography addresses social concern. The aesthetics of these photographs map out a set of emotional reactions to social issues, tailoring a form of political consciousness. The project associated with the theoretical research, an illustration exercise, unfolds and explores the visual grammar of the genre. Attention to details of a manufactured informality allows the understanding of the images as an encoded language, detaching it from the objectivity and authority of the photographic medium (...)