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
Recently I have thought a lot about the context for my work. I realised that my thinking here had been very limited, limited to the practitioners who did similar work and to the possible situations in which my work might appear. The context for my … Continue readingWeek 10 Reflection
I greatly enjoyed the material in this week’s work. Three words leap out at me: “A cheeky fellow”. That was Sam Abell’s, very generous, description of Richard Prince who infamously rephotographed Abell’s Marlborough adverts. Abell would be perfectly justified in using much more colourful language … Continue readingWeek 9 Reflection
“An image is drained of it’s force by the way it is used, where and how often it is seen”. Sontag, 2003 [1] This week we are reminded of this quote from Susan Sontag. We know Sontag is a wish woman where photography is concerned, … Continue readingWeek 8 Reflection
I have struggled with the idea of influences. This may seem odd, but it has been real. Finally in this module I have started to make some headway in this area. My early influences in photography were William Eggleston and Ernst Haas. Their high colour, … Continue readingInfluences Part 2
The edit for a portfolio is one of the hardest things to do. Pictures that you love, suddenly look out of place and that awful realisation arrives, it will have to go. Everything seems so unfair. As creative people, it is in our nature to … Continue readingPortfolio Selections