The Aesthetics of Ethics
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| Creator | Ana Luísa Moura |
| Year | 2015 |
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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.
The Aesthetics of Ethics is a reflection on the way social documentary photography shapes ethical 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 photographical medium.