STEREOSCOPE MAGAZINE
2013: THE BIG ISSUE: EVERYDAY.
THE EVERYDAY ISSUE
This issue is dedicated to that which falls into the cracks between the milestone events. The everyday is what holds the bigger picture together. Although it takes up the majority of our time, it is a theme in-between themes, and one that hopes to celebrate the eloquence of the ordinary. Within this issue you will hopefully find an amalgamation of interpretations of a notion that evades definition.
Out of an abundance of submissions comes a selection of student portfolios and articles that speaks to the fluidity of the everyday as a theme. These include images by Renata Grasso, Lukas Nagel, Miranda Stuart and Leopold Thun, each of whom renders the mundane distinctly fascinating. Both Sophie Lealan and Angus West yield textual counterparts to their equally striking photographs, while Charlotte Adlard and Jennifer Russell examine the everyday within a more academic context in their respective articles.
From the University’s Special Collections we have included a selection of photographs by two architects, Peter Willis and William Murray Jack, whose images offer a unique insight into our everyday, physical environment. Carolyn Scott’s social documentary of Newcastle serves as a visually stunning reminder of the power of the image.
STEREOSCOPE MAGAZINE
2013; THE THE LO FI mini-ISSUE.
THE LO FI mini-ISSUE
The Lo Fi (low fidelity) aesthetic attempts an alternate and often arbitrary recreation of what can be faithfully represented otherwise. It appeals to and permits anachronistic photographs that refocus the image back toward its content. And that is precisely what Stereoscope’s mini-issue intends to do –to momentarily disregard conventional photographic technique in favour of quotidian, low-fidelity, forms of photography.
The images included in this issue range from phone photographs to disposable and grainy snapshots. Printed on a black and white pamphlet, the form of the issue mirrors its content, and, like the images it showcases, attempts to create a contemporary, mediated version of our reality.
