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  The previous 25 blog posts have been a collection of images, photographers, blogs and things that I generally find fascinating through doing so I have found the many ways in which we explore information and can draw knowledge for our own work through many contexts. 
  The idea of Visual Exploration for me is the ability to have reference from many media's with a visual reference in order to create a final piece with an all round view upon many subjects not just holding a camera and taking a photo of your pet. It has more than helped me understand more of what I can include and draw context from.

Filippo Minelli - Place Branding

  Filippo is a contemporary artist using open public spaces and urban typology to represent his vast interest into graffiti art however in recent years he has tried to break away from this by using more provocative unusual interventions in city squares to try and estrange him from the 'conventional' graffiti art. 

  His new project is called Place Branding and he is experimenting with both silence and speech in order to represent and area in Spain. His images are very creative and challenge what both silence and speech physically represent. 

Here are some of his images for the project of Contradictions: 

  When speaking about his photographs Minelli says; 'The aim of the project is to point out the gap between the reality we live in and the ephemeral world of technologies.
Writing the names of anything connected with 2.0 experiences in the slums of the third world as to underline the idealization connected with these experiences, which provokes a small-but-important detach of the perception of reality.'

  These photographs really interest me and I am very much agree with the concept Minelli speaks about that our reality is majorly warped by the fact that we are so obsessed with our social networking world that third world seems so detached and it should be priority.

http://www.filippominelli.com/contradictions/