The Pursuit of Happiness Project

Well, not too much has happened recently with out project. Because it was a brand new idea, there has been a lot of infrustructure to set up- a lot more than I think we thought there would be. The biggest one is consent of the subjects we photograph. To avoid any legal quarrels our principal is requireing us to obatin writted consent of all subjects we photograph. Writing up a disclaimer was really tricky, we had to make sure we detailed everything that could get us into trouble such as publishing photos of minors on various public media platforms. This then had to be translated into Tamil and Sinnahlese so that locals could understand it. One of the issues we encountered with this is that some words and phrases don’t translate easily. It really got me thinking about the issues in translating and how meanings of words can be lost and changed in the process.