Student Research Symposium, Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit
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Item Women to Watch Movies?(Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit, Department of Fine Arts, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Buddhika, S.All people can look at a picture, but not all of them can read the picture. Photography is a type of language. It can tell many things. In every artwork, there is a hidden purpose, but not everyone can read it because we need literacy to read a language. Without it we can’t get the full taste of that. If we have the literacy to read images in photography then we can look at the picture in different ways, and when we look at the picture,we engage in a series of complex readings. In such a reading, a series of problematic, ambiguous, and often contradictory meanings and relationships between the reader and the photograph will emerge. According to Bruno Barbey “Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. “ Ansell Adams said that “you don’t make a photograph just with the camera, you bring to the act of photograph all the pictures you have seen the books you have read, the music you have heard the people you have loved”. According to Adams, the cameraman takes the best picture not just using his camera, so we want literacy to understand what the artist says. Without that artistic reading, it will be just a beautiful snapshot. Therefore, viewers of photography need to be literate in the language of photography to read it and get the best taste and feeling about it.Item A Study of the Possibilities and Limits(Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit, Department of Fine Arts, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Suraweera, A.In this paper, I will discuss the ethical problems related to employing photo manipulation in photojournalism Using data from news media. Like all professional fields, photojournalism has its own standard of ethics. Every publication has to follow a set of rules (Bersak, 2006). Photojournalism is different from any other area of photography. Photojournalists contribute photos to the news media so the photos should be impartial and honest. Otherwise, photographs may lead to massive problems. The digital composite of a British soldier in Basra photographed by Brian Walski is a very clear example of how the manipulation of photographs and footage in documentries can lead to problems (Flybring, 2009). In this paper, I argue that photographs and footage in documentaries should never be manipulated. Photojournalists are reporting what they can see. The use of modification tools like cropping, scar reduction and color reversal can change the abate and follow of an article or graphic design. Over-manipulation or distortions have to be legally prohibited in photojournalism because; viewers have a right to know the truth. In the early stage of photography, the photograph meant being able to capture the world as we see it through speed In 1860, president Abraham Lincoln’s Head was grafted onto John Calhoun’s portrait This was the first example of photo Manipulation. In the digital era, photo manipulation is treated as creative art. However, in photojournalism it can have a negative impact on society.