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 ›
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 ›
EXERCISE – AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF-PORTRAITURE Project 1 of Part 3 (Putting Yourself in the Picture) is entitled Autobiographical Self-Portraiture and the related Exercise asks me to reflect on the pieces of work discussed in the project and to do some further research of my own. The artists featured in the work book text are Francesca Woodman, […]Read Post ›
MY DIARY In preparation for Assignment 3 I am asked to keep a diary for at least 2 weeks writing two or three pages about myself and what I have been doing and thinking. The brief tells me that I can be as specific or poetic as I wish and gives me the option of […]Read Post ›
THREE CASE STUDIES I am asked to look at individual bodies of work created by three Level 3 OCA students each of whom were exploring themes in their work that are not necessarily visible. All use metaphor to portray their ideas rather than a more straight forward method of representation. The three pieces of work are […]Read Post ›
I was looking forward to this exercise! It asked me to choose a poem that resonated with me and then to interpret it through photographs. This spoke to me as a wonderful way to awaken my dormant creativity and have some fun. It was getting away from the theory side with its head scratching complexities […]Read Post ›
THE SECTARIAN MURDER SERIES Paul Seawright, Professor of Photography and Head of Belfast School of Art at the University of Ulster, visited the locations of 1970’s sectarian murders near his home in Belfast in order to take photographs. The resulting 6 images printed as C-type prints in an edition of 5 are collectively referred to as […]Read Post ›
I have been following and contributing to an interesting and developing forum on the OCA website which has thrown up many issues and ideas for me to consider. The link to the thread is : – http://www.oca-student.com/content/personal-voice It started off as a discussion on the question of a ‘personal voice’ and the merits of finding […]Read Post ›
This first Exercise asks me to find some examples of news stories where ‘citizen journalism’ has exposed or highlighted abuses of power. It then asks the questions : – How do these pictures affect the story, if at all? Are these pictures objective? Can pictures ever be objective? ‘Citizen journalism’ is a recent concept which […]Read Post ›
DAVID GARDNER PHOTOGRAPHY 