Mobile Histories, the curated path and the pilgrim trail Tracing the Footsteps of St Bede. A photographic walk as research practice.

Abstract

This paper will discuss a visual arts practice led research project exploring the interconnected nature of walking, photographic practice and digital navigation systems as a form of drawing. Working within interdisciplinary methods, which acknowledge convergences and shared concerns between the visual arts, post modern geography and ethnographic studies within the social sciences, I am asking how photography may serve as a reflexive tool, which enables a reading of the complex and accumulating histories of landscape through a grounded phenomenological perspective