Theodor Frederick Hiebert Explores the use of photography and 2D
digital imaging as contemporary art forms in a practice-based
arts workshop. Emphasizes creative and conceptual engagement. We
live in a culture surrounded by photographs. Whether analog or
digital, these images speak (as proverb has it) with the power
of a thousand words. And, as a consequence, we encounter
millions of words and messages every day, describing realities
of all sorts -- some real and others less so -- creative re-
inventions of the world to artistic ends. It is no longer the
case that photographs simply tell the truth. Now images
represent all sorts of things -- airbrushed or enhanced or
sometimes even simply fabricated -- creating stories of their
own that often have little to do with the histories from which
they were grown. And yet, in this, images also have the power to
tell new stories and to make us think in imaginative ways about
the worlds in which we already live. Joan Fontcuberta, for
instance, creates fictional animals