Week 8 - Artist - Addario-Cardiff-Miller
Lynsey Addario - Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist. Her work frequently focuses on human rights and conflict resolution, particularly the role of women in traditional societies. Although she started with no previous experience in photography.
She made a name for herself by Focusing on Cuba and the effect of communism on the public. 
Addario traveled across Nepal, Afghanistan, and Pakistan while residing in India, focusing on humanitarian and women's issues. Addario got her big break and was put on rotation for The New York Times while in Pakistan. She "used her gender to sneak inside women's Madrases to interview and photograph the most devoted Pakistani ladies" during this period. Addario talked with her subjects for a long time, which inspired her to utilize photography to “dispel prejudices or misconceptions; of exposing the unexpected.” She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, the Republic of the Congo, and Haiti.
Janet Cardiff - Canadian sound and sound installation artist who frequently collaborates with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff studied photography and printmaking at university, and her first works were large-scale silkscreens. The Guardian Angel, a Super-8 film she made with Bures Miller in 1983, was her first artistic collaboration with him. Cardiff's work began to involve elements of narrative sequencing, sound experiments, and dance after this filmmaking experience. Her work prior to collabrating with her husband includes, The Whispering Room, Her Long Black Hair, Words Drawn in Water.
Cardiff and Miller collaborated on the first multimedia project, "The Dark Pool," which debuted in Vancouver in 1995. Visitors travel around a darkly lit space, which is filled with cardboard, carpets, and gathered ephemera and relics, activating noises such as musical pieces, portions of conversations, and fragments of stories. Their work is based on the concept that sound has the potential to transport people to different worlds. Audio and video walks that respond to specific locations and indoor installations are among their most well-known works.
Addario’s and Cardiff-Miller’s work is similar Their images create stories and provide insight into what is being photographed. Before merely clicking their cameras to create their pieces, they both endeavor to grasp the circumstance.
The fundamental difference between their works is that Addario seeks to present the true and honest tale of her subjects, whereas Cardiff & Miller's work alternates between truth and reality. Cardiff and Miller use scripting to weave tales into each work. Addario dislikes the use of alternate realities in their work, although Cardiff & Miller enjoy it. Along with the fact that Addario tells story just my pictures which can be anaylised faster than Cardiff & Miller those also incorporate sounds and lighting.
Between gritty edge of real-world stories and whimsy and inner-monologues either is more important than the other. Some people experience things that can't be explained as real or fake, but we can't say someone didn't experience what they did. I think whimsical mind explorations is cruel to the person that is experiencing it, but why does someone have the right to know things about the other person that they didn't tell themselves.
If I had to pick between the two I would pick Cardiff-Miller because their work doesn't just focus on real stuff. I understand the importance of making reality be seen and heard but sometimes people need a place to escape from reality. I feel like that could be possible with Cardiff-Miller's work. Like I use Netflix as a form of escape but if that wasn't available I would need something else.
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