Photography as an Educator by Brigette Quinn

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Photography as an Educator

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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"In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe." - Susan Sontag On Photography

Photography communicates, connects and educates. Here is microbial view of drug resistant tubuculosis.

Photos allow us to share the views of global changes on our planet.

Photo by susanvg

Our history is captured to remind us of our capacity for destruction.

Photo by puntxote

But also our human kindness, compassion and respect for each other.

Photo by Hit and Shot

Photography delivers an educational message instantly to the learner for a comparison...

Photo by Community Eye Health

And contrast.

Photo by jonycunha

Photography communicates when sometimes, there are no better words.

Bates, R. (2013, November 7).For Sontag, the purpose of lit was change. [Web Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com/susan-sontags-love-affair-with-li...

Isola, P., Xiao, J., Parikh, D., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2014). What Makes a Photograph Memorable? IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, 36(7), 1469-1482. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2013.200

Susan Sontag Foundation (n.d). On Photography. Retrieved from http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/books/onPhotographyExerpt.shtml

Wood, M. L., & Forgie, S. (2015). A First Step to Blended Delivery: Introducing an Online Component to an Infectious Diseases Course Using a Photography-Based Social Media Platform. Medical Science Educator (Springer), 25(2), 101-103.

LumiByte. (n.d). Drug-resistant TB spreads. Retrieved from (http://lumibyte.eu/medical/drug-resistant-tb-spreads/

Brigette Quinn