Place writing: Beyond location and subjectivity
Zoe Martin
‘In the work of a great many writers who aim to rehabilitate place as a central theoretical concept, place is thus distinguished from mere location through being understood as a matter of the human response to physical surroundings or locations.’
(Malpas, 1999:30)
Areas of history, culture and personal experience inform how we read photographs, and this is different for each person. Furthermore in a photograph, for each person, a place is created: places of memory, adventure, safety or distress - though not always literally. Landscapes have long been known as affective places.
The experiences created by the places discovered in landscape could be seen as one way the affective turn is formed. (Phu & Steer 2009:235-240) Martin's project endeavours to explore these ideas.
