Year: 2019
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Strawberry Daiquiri
A warm, gentle breeze drifts through the open-air lobby of the resort, carrying with it the muffled chatter of those sitting around the bar. The sedative effect is complemented by a cool, refreshing drink, proffered with a smile by staff as we check in. The drink helps cool the nerves, ease the mind of the…
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Departure
There are stay-cations, where the tourist stays at home. While I don’t intend to discount the value of these, they are not my immediate concern. I am interested at this time in leisure travel; one that involves a change in place. Put another way, change of place is a means to achieve differentiation. Differentiation stimulates…
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Manufactured Dreamscapes
In the book Qualitative Research in Tourism : Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies, edited by Lisa Goodson, and Jenny Phillimore, author Barbara Humberstone notes that “…tourism studies are about the relationship between the visitor, the Other (host) and the locale …” (p.120). This begs the question what makes for a good relationship? Developing Humberstone’s thought further,…
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August Sander: Persecuted / Persecutors: People of the 20th Century by Barbara Becker-Jákli, et al
in: Book Report
August Sander (1876-1964) was a German photographer, known for his portraits. This book presents a selection of images of people who were either persecuted or where persecutors during the Nazi regime, 1933-1945. Grounded in the documentary style positions this work as faithful to reality and thus a subject of examination and interpretation. The logic supporting this…
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Project Statement
in: Documentary
Over the last 6 months, I have been thinking about the next steps along my documentary career path. The last two-and-one-half years of my studies have tacked along a culture and heritage trajectory. The growth in world-wide migration has brought together divergent peoples increasing the interaction among the world’s cultures and with that has come…