{"id":2371,"date":"2010-01-04T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:02:17","slug":"photography-as-visual-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/photography-as-visual-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOGRAPHY AS VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video interview I did recently with Jim Casper at <a title=\"Photography as Visual Anthropology, Lens Culture \" href=\"http:\/\/www.lensculture.com\/roberts-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lens Culture<\/a> as part of his &#8216;Conversations with Photographers&#8217; series where I discussed my approach to making <a title=\"Motherland Book website\" href=\"www.motherlandbook.com\" target=\"_blank\">Motherland<\/a> and We English.<\/p>\n<p>Casper introduced the interview with the following: &#8220;British Photographer Simon Roberts chooses to embark on long-term, in-depth visual studies of people and the places they live. He describes his work as socio-documentary photography, which when viewed as a whole, can be seen as a rich, subjective source of visual anthropology of contemporary life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8360346&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=ffffff&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8360346&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=ffffff&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8360346\">Simon Roberts: Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/lensculture\">Jim Casper<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video interview I did recently with Jim Casper at Lens Culture as part of his &#8216;Conversations with Photographers&#8217; series where I discussed my approach to making Motherland and We English. Casper introduced the interview with the following: &#8220;British Photographer Simon Roberts chooses to embark on long-term, in-depth visual studies of people and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}