Unusual Selfie's

Consider two unusual Selfies

A Quiz Lesson developing critical analysis of images

Selfie 1.

Look very carefully at this photograph before answering the questions on the next slides.

Multiple Select

Who is taking the photograph?

• The astronaut in the photo

• A second astronaut

• A robot camera

• A drone

Open Ended

What was reflected in the astronaut's helmet?

Multiple Choice

What is the bright object that appears behind the astronaut?

• The moon

• The sun

• A lens flare

• A star

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide - Selfie, 5 September 2012.

Selfie 2.

Look very carefully at this photograph before answering the questions on the next slides.

Open Ended

Who is the man and what is happening behind him? (Find an adult to help with this if stuck!)

Open Ended

How do you think the photograph was made?

Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips - Photo Op, 2005

About the artwork

• This image of Tony Blair (the Prime Minister at the time) was featured in an exhibition about modern art and war at a museum.

• Peter Kennard and Cat Picton-Phillipps worked together to make art in response to the invasion of Iraq.

The artists

• They describe their work as 'the visual arm of protest'. 

•  Photo Op, depicting Tony Blair taking a ‘selfie’ in front of a huge explosion, was produced in response to the anger they felt at the Government’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, in the face of widespread public protest.

Open Ended

Of course the Prime Minister never posed in front of an explosion to take a selfie. It was faked by the artists.

Why do you think the museum chose it to advertise their exhibition about art and war?

Selfie challenge

• Make a Selfie in which you pretended to be someone else!

• Or make a selfie that reflects what you are looking at!