Monday 18th January 2016

Today we had a contextual studies lesson on Gender equality, in photography. We talked about how we usually see more male photographers than female photographers that become famous. We were also told by one of our fellow students that more females go into photography than males however we notice that there are usually more famous male photographers. We then spent most of the afternoon continuing with blogs and research until we had a lecture on stereotypes and subcultures. We were taught about different music, fashion etc.. and how it had evolved/ originated and had been influenced by other cultures. For example, rock music originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, boogie woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music. We were also taught about stereotypes and a stereotypical surfer, for example when you think of a surfer, you think, blonde hair, tanned skin and from somewhere like Australia, however surfing actually originated in Hawaii.