my journey towards a BA in photography
Anna Fox – The Cockroach Diary Anna Fox British photographer and professor at the University of the Creative Arts. The video below features Anna Fox talking a little about her major projects so far – that is until the…
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Maria Kapajeva Maria Kapajeva is the first artist mentioned in the course notes looking self-absented portraitures. A self-absented portrait does not feature the photographer in a literal sense. The photographer may choose to use stand-in instead or might choose not…
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Exercise – Recreate a Childhood Memory Recreate a childhood memory in a photograph. Think carefully about the memory you choose and how you’ll recreate it. You’re free to approach this task in any way you wish. • Does the…
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Tracey Moffat – Scorpio In this series, Australian photographer Tracey Moffat dresses up as a number of famous females Scorpios, which is her own horoscope sign, including among others Hillary Clinton, Bibi Anderssen, Vivian Leigh and Bjork. “Like all…
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Exercise Trish Morrissey The coursebook asked me to look at 3 pieces of work by Trish Morrissey Front (2005-7). I this project, she visits beaches around the UK and Australia and gets random family groups to allow her to swap…
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Exercise – Nikki S. Lee Nikki S. Lee is a Korean photographer and filmmaker, living and working in Seoul, although formerly based in New York. Lee uses different artistic disciplines: Photography, performance, film and multimedia. She combines the different…
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GILLIAN WEARING She was born in 1963 and is an English conceptual artist, she’s won the annual British fine arts award and the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 she was elected as a lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts…
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ELINA BROTHERUS (born 29 April 1972) is a Finnish photographer and video artist specializing in self-portraits and landscapes. Elina Brotherus. (2016) Brotherus project Annunciation is about the hope and heartache of the…
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FRANCESCA WOODMAN (1958 -1981) Francesca Woodman in her short life produced over 500 self-portraits, and when I first saw her work I thought she was very daring, showing so much of herself both physically and emotionally. Her…
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Keith Greenough – OCA Student The open page of section 3 contains a triptych by fellow OCA student Keith Greenough and I am immediately drawn to it. I like the idea of multi-image portraits that show the different sides…
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