Month: July 2015

• The brain series: Gender Identity

  Someone from the transgender resource group sent met a link to this episode from the The Brain Series. This is about gender identity.  For many reasons this has fascinated me, not only because, as was found out, I have gender dysphoria too, but also because Identity just fascinates me.

  Merit Coba

  11/07/2015

  stories

• Every Photo is a story: the photos of Frances Benjamin Johnston

  

  In this five-part series, Kristi Finefield and Sam Watters discuss the ways to uncover the story in photographs, specifically a series of hand-colored lantern slides of historic gardens and homes created by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the early 20th century.

  Merit Coba

  09/07/2015

  stories

  photo, story, storytelling

• Another story: Trinity

  When talking about collages, a friend of mine asked me why I think that making a pictorial story would work because as far as he knows most imagery, a catch all phrase for pictures, photographs and other ways to display (un)reality, is often one single depiction of a single event. Like a snapshot or a […]

  Merit Coba

  09/07/2015

  identiy, pictures, stories

  avatars, second life, story, trinity

• Identity: fatherland

  

  This is the first of the pictures I made to explore identity, gender and the way we are conditioned to look at people. It is a female avatar with a female skin with a beard in a military outfit, Then military outfit is both modern and of world war II vintage. There are more references […]

  Merit Coba

  09/07/2015

  Avatars, genders, identiy

  avatars, genders, identity