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DAVID GARDNER PHOTOGRAPHY

MY LAST POST REVISITED

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 ›

MY LAST 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 ›

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 ›

REFLECTION ON C&N ASSIGNMENT 2

REFLECTION ON PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN  –  RELATIONSHIPS Having completed Assignment 2 of the Context & Narrative course I am now taking time to reflect on the work I have created and the processes I used in its creation.  I will use the OCA’s formal Assessment Criteria Points as a framework for this reflection and review. […]Read Post ›

ASSIGNMENT 2 – PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN

PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN  –  RELATIONSHIPS Having given considerable thought and planning to this Assignment as evidenced by an earlier post I have decided to explore a number of aspects of the subject of relationships in a visual way.  In keeping with the aim of this Assignment I am using visual allusion and metaphor to represent […]Read Post ›

PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN Preparatory work for Assignment 2

REVIEW OF PART 2 As Assignment 2 effectively asks me to explore and put into practice the ideas, practices  and concepts introduced in the foregoing Projects and Exercises in Part 2 of the course it seems to me that a useful starting point for my planning of this Assignment 2 would be to briefly review […]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 ›

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