Ms. Sukhmeen Kaur Cheema, School Counsellor attended a workshop on Self Portrait to Selfie: Redefining Image-Making by noted photographer, designer and filmmaker Parthiv Shah on 16th July 2016 at the India Habitat Centre (IHC). The event had participants of different age groups.
Mr. Shah said that the selfie may be the result of unprecedented changes in technology and the rise of social media but it owes tremendously to the old-age genre of self-portrait. The long history of self-portraiture seems to have begun during the middle ages with painting. For some, it was meant to symbolise the primacy of authorship, for others it represented a case of self-consciousness and personal scrutiny, perhaps also a way to document their lives, he explained.
[gallery link="file"]From the prolific works of 15th century painters like Rembrandt to the almost neurotic efforts by modernists such as Van Gogh and Edvard Munch, the practice soon made its way into the busy annals of the photographic world, he added.
In the present times, we want to project ourselves in front of others and that is where the selfie comes in. Involving the participants directly in the proceedings, he made everyone click self-portraits which were then discussed at length in the workshop. During his discussion, he touched upon important aspects of photography like lens perspective, design elements and how they are applicable in self-portraits. Emphasising on the importance of framing he said, We need framing. Framing means eliminating things. To capture a single thing we eliminate multiple things, and this is an important part in image-making whether it is a selfie or any other picture.
Ms. Sukhmeen Kaur Cheema
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