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 ›
PART 2 – NARRATIVE EXERCISE 1 Part 2 of the Context and Narrative course introduces me to two photo essays. The first entitled ‘Country Doctor’ was produced in 1948 by W. Eugene Smith, an American photographer from Colorado, who followed a country doctor, Dr Ceriani, and recorded his life at work and relaxation. The […]Read Post ›
Liz Wells, in her book Photography: A Critical Introduction (4th edition 2009) (*1) wrote a section called ‘The Real and the Digital'(pages 73 – 75). In it she questions the authenticity and ‘reality’ of photographs in the new age of digital when images can be manipulated and created to a previously unprecedented extent. For this Exercise […]Read Post ›
The creation of composite images is now possible through the application of software technology in post-production. This Exercise asks me to use digital software such as Photoshop to create a composite image which visually appears to be a documentary photograph but which could never be. Whilst I have access to both Lightroom and Photoshop and […]Read Post ›
This Exercise draws my attention to the work of photographer Sarah Pickering and in particular to her series Public Order produced in 2004. Initially, on looking at the first images it appears that the subject is a rather uninteresting and unpopulated English townscape. The images have a bland and flat appearance and the question that arises […]Read Post ›
