This project was motivated by a desire to critique the news media in their often biased way of framing news content. The manner in how news is presented and revealed to us alters our perception of the current world, and thus plays a big role in one’s definition of truth.
“29″ aims to examine the relationship between news headlines and the photographs which accompany them. It is a deliberate attempt to decontextualize text and redefine the meaning of news through its juxtaposition with everyday life images and through wordplay.
The methodology was to collect as many photographs (old or new) from various people on how they define everyday life. Simultaneously, I was collecting news headlines (front page and news page) from the National Post. This collection phase occurred in a span of 29 days, resulting to more than 1300 photos and 29 National Post newspapers.
News headlines were sequenced to form a narrative, and were juxtaposed with images of everyday life that seem to respond to what they mean when removed of political agendas or news context. In addition, the piece plays on finding words within words to subtly suggest that sometimes we need to investigate and look deeper into the meaning of words that we read.
