“A fisherman’s cottage is described by real estate agents as a ‘property not to be missed’ but it is also just yards away from two nuclear power stations.”
A photograph (or landscape, map, etc.) is not an innocent reflection of reality. They can be carefully crafted to tell a story which might reflect the bigger picture and your ideological framework–but it just as easily might obscure some important contexts and truths. I use these images at the beginning of the semester to discuss the bias inherent in our own perspectives as I try to infuse my classroom with a variety of lenses with which to view different regions (images found here).
Tags: images, landscape, perspective, regions.
See on www.telegraph.co.uk



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