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      • EYEWITNESSES?
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      • THE VISUAL DEPICTION OF A POEM
      • PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN – EXERCISE
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        • PART 3 PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE PICTURE – MY DIARY
        • AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF-PORTRAITURE
        • MASQUERADES
        • EXERCISE – MASQUERADES
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        • PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN Preparatory work for Assignment 2
        • ASSIGNMENT 2 – PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN
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        • ASSIGNMENT 2 – RESPONSE TO FORMATIVE FEEDBACK
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      • My thoughts on setting out on the Context and Narrative Course
      • THE CAMERA NEVER LIES!
      • In an Alien World
      • WAYS OF SEEING – JOHN BERGER
      • TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE – THAT IS THE QUESTION
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      • THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS MY PROOF
      • MY LAST POST
      • MY LAST POST REVISITED
      • CHANGING PERCEPTIONS
      • THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVE AND PERSONAL CONNECTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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DAVID GARDNER PHOTOGRAPHY

EXERCISES – C & N

EXERCISE – MASQUERADES

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 ›

MASQUERADES

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 ›

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF-PORTRAITURE

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 ›

PART 3 PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE PICTURE – MY DIARY

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 ›

PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN – EXERCISE

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 ›

THE VISUAL DEPICTION OF A POEM

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 ›

SECTARIAN MURDER

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 ›

In an Alien World

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 ›

EYEWITNESSES?

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 ›

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