“The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it” (Hayhoe, 2019) Intent The intention of my practice is to pursue my personal activism through photography. I want to be able to tell stories about the things that matter to me. … Continue readingCritical Review of Practice – Final
Positive point of view: Over the coming years, the influence of the big oil companies will wane as sustainable technologies take over. Negative point of view: As air pollution gets worse, the culprits will be more difficult to see. More desktop photography.
Christopher Spencer started making digital collages on his smartphone on the way to work and posting them on Twitter under the pseudonym Cold War Steve. They rapidly became wildly popular. His bleakly satirical pictures of rotting caravans, pompous and ineffectual politicians, and down-at-heel street scenes … Continue readingCold War Steve
The Covid 19 pandemic means we should: Stay Home – Protect The NHS – Save Lives I’m fine with this. I don’t want to become ill and I don’t want my family to be ill. Other generations have put up with much worse. But for … Continue readingDesktop Photography
“The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it” (Hayhoe, 2019) Intent The intention of my practice is to pursue my personal activism through photography. I want to be able to tell stories about the things that matter to me. … Continue readingCritical Review Of Practice (Final Draft)
My practice is all about photographing out of doors. That’s what I have tended to do and my project is all about the environment. So the current restrictions on movement due to Covid 19 are a big nuisance. Considering the big picture, I am fortunate. … Continue readingWorking At Home
“Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not … Continue readingCritical Review (Second Draft)
“Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not … Continue readingCritical Review of Practice (First Draft)
Since I have chosen to define my practice as activist photography, I will need to look at critiques of other activist photographers in order to discover discourses relevant to my work. Sebastião Salgado is a self-professed activist and the criticisms of his work have been … Continue readingAesthetics Or Anaesthetics
When I was planning my pictures that would ultimately form my portfolio for December 2019, I had considered creating tableaux of Extinction Rebellion protestors on the street during the October rebellion. This proved to be impractical as the situation was too fluid to set up … Continue readingTableaux By Accident