A record of my work on the Context and Narrative course
MOVING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION This Post is being typed over the space left by my half completed, but now deleted, C&N Assignment 3 which, as I have taken the decision to leave the course, is no longer relevant to me, hence the deletion. The decision comes as a result of personal year’s end reflections and Resolutions […]Read Post ›
RECREATING A CHILDHOOD MEMORY IN A PHOTOGRAPH This Exercise requires me to recreate a childhood memory in a photograph. I am asked to think carefully about the memory I choose and how I’ll recreate it. I am free to approach this task in any way I wish. The Exercise brief gives me considerable scope […]Read Post ›
While I was considering my approach to the Assignment in Part 3 of the C&N course, I revisited my two earlier C&N Assignments to see what I could learn from my approach to those and, more particularly, from my tutor’s formative feedback that would assist me. This made me realise that I had not revisited […]Read Post ›
TWO PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS – TWO RESPONSES I had an excellent opportunity to compare two styles of photographs last Tuesday and to be aware of my interesting responses to them. I have recently joined a U3A photography group in order to feel some connection with fellow local photographers and to open myself to the learning opportunities […]Read Post ›
LIGHT STARTS TO BREAK THROUGH THE MIST AND CONFUSION A week is a long time in politics – and also in OCA photography courses it would seem. Since I published my ‘last post’, in which I said that I had decided to leave the C&N course and the OCA, a lot has happened. After posting […]Read Post ›
GOODBYE TO THE OCA COURSE I have come to a final and very difficult decision. After considerable thought, soul searching and indecision I have finally decided that I no longer want to continue with the Context & Narrative course and I am therefore withdrawing from the OCA Photography degree course. This is particularly difficult for me […]Read Post ›
PART THREE PROJECT 2 – MASQUERADES The subjects of this Exercise are two series of photographs by two women artists, Nikki S Lee and Trish Morrissey. Lee, an American of Korean origin, had aspirations of becoming an actress but, after pressure from her mother, chose instead to train as a photographer and now lives out […]Read Post ›
