Presentation made at the American Centre on 2nd November, dealing with photography and activism.

1. Photography and new media for change
Sanjana Hattotuwa
TED Fellow

2. Painted revolutions
Capturing revolutions of yesteryear

3. Delacroix
French revolution

4. 'Assault on the Tuileries'
French revolution

5. American revolution
Washington Crossing the Delaware

6. Peninsular War
Spain, 1808

7. Shooting revolutions
Capturing revolutions today

8. Egypt
January 2011

9. Tunisia
January 2011

10. Libya
August 2011

11. Syria
June 2011

12. Iran
June 2009

13. What’s changed?

14. Democratisation of skill
Hard
Easy

15. Economy of time
Long
Quick

16. A wider public
Rich, few, local
Free, many, global

17. More produced
Hundreds a minute, immediately
Few a year, after years

18. Citizen produced
Amateur, many, ubiquitous
Professional, few, expensive

19. Better produced
Boulevard du Temple, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, 1839

20. Finer resolution

21. A dying camera?
Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros was one of
two Western photographers killed in Libya

22. Amateur cameras
Mobile phones in Syria

24. “The best camera is the One That’s with You. Images
aren’t about dynamic ranges and megapixels. They’re
about stories and moments.”
~ Chase Jarvis

25. Mobile witnesses &
mobiles witness
http://www.18daysinegypt.com

26. Camera optional?
Photography via mobiles

27. How popular?
Mobile phones or digital cameras on Flickr?

28. Apple’s iPhone

29. Apple’s iPhone

30. Evolution of a camera
2007 2011

31. 1,000 words in a click
means...

32. Changing the discourse
Questioning propaganda

33. Bearing witness
http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl

34. Documenting dissent
http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl

35. Reframing the ordinary
http://www.movingimages.asia

36. Hidden people
http://www.movingimages.asia

37. Civic education
http://groundviews.org/2010/05/29/the-big-stink-in-sri-lanka

38. Communicating poverty
http://www.womenandmedia.net/options/?p=395

39. Public in public
JR’s activist photography

40. Public in public
JR’s activist photography

41. Public on public
JR’s activist photography

42. Turning the world inside out
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html

43. Real time engagement
#OccupyColombo @ 6.17pm 100% of 99% missing. Who actually came? Comprehensive #fail Only walkers and
joggers here #lka pic.twitter.com/AJEjTQEI

44. Facebook the new Flickr?

45. Facebook the new Flickr?
On average, over 250 million photos are
uploaded a day, or over 6 billion per month.
There are over 90 billion photos total on
Facebook.
47 years to go through, one second per photo.
By far, the largest photos site on the Internet.

46. Post PC world
Tablets and mobiles are driving creation and consumption

48. Consumption increase
500px iPad app

49. Consumption increase
Guardian iPad app

50. Converging devices
Point & shoot vs. mobiles (iPhone 4S)

54. http://grassrootsmapping.org

59. New ways of seeing
Microsoft Photosynth

61. It’s not the tech

62. YOU matter
Groundviews iPhone app

63. Thank you
sanjanah@gmail.com

64. Photo sources & credits
• Slide 1,Vikalpa, http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl
• Slide 2, Image from Martha Marshall, http://artistsjournal.wordpress.com/
2009/08/28/wet-paint/
• Slide 3, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Liberty_Leading_the_People
• Slide 4, Image from http://cultureandstuff.com/2011/08/13/marie-
antoinette-on-trial-your-cut-out-and-keep-guide-to-reading-the-trial-
part-1/
• Slide 5, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Washington's_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River
• Slide 6, Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War
• Slide 7, Image from http://www.createandshare.net/tag/spanish-revolution

65. Photo sources & credits
• Slide 8, Image from http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/48631/egyptian-
activists-kiss-soldiers-and-riot-police-strike-blows-against-tyrants-
everywhere/. See commentary here http://www.theatlantic.com/
international/archive/2011/01/egypt-why-the-kiss-picture-is-so-radical/
70518/
• Slide 9, Image from http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2011/01/women-in-
tunisias-revolution/
• Slide 10, Image from http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/
live-blog-libya
• Slide 11, Image from http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/8157/56/
Una-multitud-de-indignados-protestaron-en-un-millar-de-ciudades-por-
todo-el-mundo.html
• Slide 12, Image from http://vorige.nrc.nl/article2277072.ece

66. Photo sources & credits
• Slide 21, Image from http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/
2011/04/21/6503987-in-memory-of-photojournalist-chris-hondros
• Slide 22, image from http://www.projectuprising.org/
• Slide 23, image from http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/06/social-
media-documentary-makers
• Slide 26, image from http://panamoz.com/index.php/catalog/product/
gallery/image/2923/id/1193/
• Slide 27, image from http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/gallery/item/
Nokia_E521.php
• Slide 30, image from http://www.cultofmac.com/125823/iphone-4s-
outshines-many-high-end-compact-cameras-says-camera-creator/
iphone_camera_improvements-728-75/

67. Photo sources & credits
• Slide 32, image from http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-
flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/
• Slide 33, image from http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl
• Slide 34, image from http://www.flickr.com/vikalpasl
• Slide 35, image from http://www.movingimages.asia
• Slide 36, image from http://www.movingimages.asia
• Slide 37, image from http://groundviews.org/2010/05/29/the-big-stink-in-
sri-lanka
• Slide 38, image from http://www.womenandmedia.net/options/?p=395

68. Photo sources & credits
• Slide 43, image from http://twitter.com/#!/groundviews/status/
129903570228232193/photo/1
• Slide 46, image from http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/05/05/remember-
the-milk-releases-intuitive-yet-powerful-ipad-app/
• Slide 50, image courtesy Apple, http://www.apple.com/iphone/built-in-
apps/camera.html
• Slide 55, image from http://walyou.com/president-barack-obama-
newspaper-headlines-collage/