Holly Houlton 

(2019)

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The collaborative project, ‘The Insider y El Forastero’ explores both components of this photography theme. The two photographers (Holly Houlton and Jasmine Smith) are outsiders to the Spanish community due to the language barrier. Additionally, they are insiders to the urban architecture of Madrid, as they live in these local areas and this is a focal subject, symbolic of their Erasmus experiences. The purposefully chosen models are part of this insider Erasmus community, to document all participants’ experiences. This work is an example of Solomon-Godeau analogy of how: “The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the [photographer]…it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception” (n.d).

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