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 ›
“A good photograph, like a good poem, is a self contained little universe inexhaustible to scrutiny”. Rebecca Norris Webb, photographer —– o0o —– This exercise required me to visit a street that particularly interests me and to shoot 30 colour and 30 black & white images in a street photography style. […]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 ›
