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Documenting Community

By Karl Cole, posted on Oct 10, 2024

There is a compelling number and variety of photographic genres that continue to expand in the twenty-first century. But no matter how far these genres evolve, traditional paradigms of photography, such as straight-image photography, persist in importance. Contemporary photographers make imaginative use of the camera’s power to document reality. Photographers such as Rebekah Flake use their images to explore themes of identity, self-reflection, and history. Flake’s work references the persistence of history in terms of place and the relationship of place to community perceptions of self. Trained as an artist and art historian, Flake specializes in photography and production design, a field in which image and messaging are equally important.

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