Abstract
Homography describes the motion created from the projection of points mapping one image from one space to another. It is a collineation from one plane of sight to a secondary plane in which the focal range is directed forwards, with the morphology from the point of origination being equal to that of the progenitor. Thinking about this photographically, it is a concept in which is useful in illustrating the liminal space created by the point of origin, the camera and subject, and the destination, the viewer and material. The visual mapping or morphology of the image may be equal at both points but its movement through time and space leaves it susceptible to transformation from intersecting factors existing simultaneously within that space. The word homography, also acting here as a portmanteau of the word’s homosexual and photography, describes an intersection, or collision point between homosexuality and the medium, both being pivotal elements to the shaping and representation of gay identities within modernity. What transformative powers then do the photograph and the gay man have upon each other, and by extension have over the world in which it is positioned within? This enquiry plays a core theme towards my PhD research and is centred around how the image, the mode of capture, and the identity it presents both mediate and disrupt the relational dynamics of power and affect towards gay representation.
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KEYWORDS
HOMOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY, HOMOSEXUALITY, POWER, AFFECT, IDENTITY, REPRESENTATION
