Beyond Documentary -

Beyond documentary photography: An Investigation into the benefits of collaborative multi media story telling techniques.

Masters in Design Research project. To design a multi media participatory photographic documentary exhibition with two teenage girls Niki and Annie from South Auckland, New Zealand. This work will be exhibited during the Manukau Festival of the Arts, as, online, street posters, and on LCD screens. This project aims to go beyond the boundaries of conventional documentary distribution. Beyond Documentary tests non-traditional methods of not only the record of the photographic documentary story, with the intention to celebrate access to digital technology and distribute the stories, made by the youth, into the community rather than confined to galleries, magazines and cinema.