Widarto Adi

“In the wake of the Cognitive Revolution, gossip helped Homo sapiens to form larger and more stable bands. But even gossip has its limits. Sociological research has shown that the maximum ‘natural’ size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see. Yet it usually represents aesthetic and theoretical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can access.”
― Lucy Soutter, Why Art Photography?

“In the future, graduates will need to build on the old literacies by adding three more—data literacy, technological literacy, and human literacy.”
― Joseph E. Aoun, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies”
― David Bate, Photography: The Key Concepts