UBC Photographic Society – My Everyday

UBC Photographic Society

UBC Photographic Society

The UBC Photosociety featured photo exhibit entitled “My Everyday” at the Irving K.  Barber Learning Center Gallery that displayed work done by members of the UBC Photosociety.  The exhibition’s theme was about daily living in Vancouver, and the ways that those lives intersect with university life.
The  ideas of the photo exhibition is that often the process of capturing the lives of others—be they family members, friends, co-workers, models, or people in the community—but photographers do not often think through the ways in which their praxis mediates their own experience of reality, or the ways in which this capturing provides an illusory sense of their world as objectively theirs.  For the exhibit, my everyday, emerging photographers have captured the things they see, do, are inspired by, and frustrated by in their everyday lives as students and members of the university community, as a means of both encouraging  and denying fellow-feeling with others.  Thus, the exhibit will allow for a theorization of the “everydayness” of university life—a life all too often described as alien to the “real” world—but at the same time will encourage the viewer to see that everyday life is best understood in terms of a plurality of perspectives.
The UBC Photo Society is an interactive organization for anyone interested in photography, be they casual, serious amateurs or professional photographers. The club offers a wide variety of activities: an online weblog, photo and digital competitions, study groups via mail and the internet, how-to programs, an annual photo competition and a raft of other activities and services.
To see more photos of this exhibition, please find here.

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