Discussion with Professor Maria Popova and Guests

20.06.2011
Discussion with Professor Maria Popova and Guests
Start: 20.06.2011 at 19:30
The Red House Culture and Debate Center

Professor Maria Popova is Honorary Professor of the New Bulgarian University, founder of the NBU Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies, of the Early Autumn School of Semiotics and the Master's and Doctoral Programs in Semiotics. Professor Popova has been President of the Bulgarian Semiotics Society since 2000, member of the Executive Committees of the Balkan Association for Semiotic Studies and the International Association for semiotic Studies.

Portraying oneself
One of the visual expressions of human curiosity to the world is the glimpse of the iconic world of reality embedded in photographic samples. Photography registers reality, enhances memories storage and locks facts even when we want to reject them. Moreover, it identifies us. Think of Identification card photo, diploma photo, driving license photo, fake photo, corpse evidence photo for forensic investigation, etc. Identification of the appearance, of the external emanation of a personality. But how about the variants? The personality's delving into the other self? Thinking processes allow us to contemplate our inner self. To examine ourselves. To create self-esteem. Yet photography needs the artistic technique of the Fine Art Photographer, his creative whim to explicate duplicity and multiply the image in the daily routine continuum.

Yet locking space and your place in it is not just a matter of artistic technique. This is also a matter of psychological introspection and absorption of the fact that personality identification and self-identification come up just to a discreet process.