As a result, the focus of the project gradually shifted from identifying similarities between images to investigating how these similarities are produced within specific space. I began conducting on-site research around different photographic viewpoints, analyzing how specific locations correspond to particular bodily behaviors, compositional rules, and modes of viewing. Through this process, I further explored how images that are constantly circulated and imitated slowly transform from personal photographs into collective behavioral norms.
A ‘letter’ is a medium through which information is conveyed and circulated. Just as letters are sent, read and received between people, images of tourists on social media are constantly shared between people.
I hope to guide the audience towards understanding tourist photographs as a form of visual information that is constantly being passed on. The ‘postage stamps’ in the first section represent images that have already entered the circulation system, whilst the ‘letters’ here explore further how these images continue to convey ways of seeing and patterns of behaviour as they are disseminated.
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