Every person is unique – including in their perception. We explore the world through our senses, which are influenced by various factors. The digitized world bombards us with a flood of images, placing sight in the spotlight.
What do I see? What do you see? From what different perspectives do we view the world and act within it? From January 30th to February 4th, 2023, participants in the FSJ Kultur elective seminar explored these and other questions using photographic and filmic methods.
What is visible, what remains invisible, when it comes to talents, needs, and desires—or privileges, access, and barriers? Images influence how we perceive the world. Beauty ideals on Instagram or automatic filters in cameras shape our understanding of authenticity and staging. Recurring visual motifs and aesthetics contribute to the development of prejudices and perpetuate stereotypes. What does looking beyond the surface reveal? In the face of countless repeated images, what value do originality, individual perspective, and creativity hold?
In this flood of images, our human interpretive abilities and scope are changing, while at the same time machines are learning to read images. The creation, use, and dissemination of images in a digitized society raises many questions on both a personal and a societal level. Volunteers in the cultural social year program of LKJ Berlin explored these questions in their own images during the six-day seminar "I Spy." Some of these images offer a glimpse into their self-conceived and produced visual worlds.
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Workshop group Analog black and white photography:
Photographed exhibition of the workshop group Analog Black and White Photography
Digital Photography Workshop
Film Workshop Group
More impressions from the seminar on Flickr
The seminar was a collaboration with the Berlin State Association for Cultural Education.
It was funded by the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family.
