Making Place: Mediated Attention in Expanded Landscape Photography

Making Place is a series of point clouds as expressions from my correspondence with the Maribyrnong River and volumetric imaging technology. The work responds to a sense of becoming within place and photography. The research investigates the entanglements of practitioner, environment, and technology in expanded landscape photography. Through a creative practice-based approach, it examines how photo imaging tools mediate my attention to the landscape and how experimental interventions generate new ways of performing, discovering, and perceiving it. The research generates a methodology that renegotiates the relations between practitioner, landscape, and technology by treating them as co-constituting correspondents, offering a non-representational strategy that explores new vectors of making and critique within expanded landscape photography. While a mutual unfolding of attention and practice is established in mediation theory, it remains underexplored in a creative photography context. By disrupting my existing landscape photography practice and incorporating photogrammetry, this research extends mediation theory by developing an original series of point cloud artworks through a novel and productive creative methodology for making place.