my journey towards a BA in photography
Exercise: Image and Text Poetry Part 2 Poetry is starting to defeat me as is metaphorical and visceral interpretations in photographs – I am doubting if I am an artist or just a photographer. It said that you become an…
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Exercise: Image and Text Poetry Part 1 The aim of this exercise (and Assignment Two) is to encourage you to develop metaphorical and visceral interpretations rather than obvious and literal ones, to give a sense of something rather than a…
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Dear Robert, C&N A1 Tutor Feedback Highlighed Thank you for your response to my first assignment and while I generally with your comments and I very much agree with one sentence which sums up my feeling towards this assignment: Your…
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I have just returned from a weeks scuba diving holiday in the Maldives and above is album of images from that week. The trip wasn’t primarily a photography trip and honestly due to the tiredness from the diving I was in…
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C&N Assignment 1 – Self Reflection Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills This has been an interesting assignment and I have “followed my gut” in how it has been presented I have shot in a street/travel style to produce a…
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Just how edited Prints were? One thing that gets me very annoyed are people who say “I never edit my images”; “I only ever shoot straight out of camera”; “I don’t believe in photoshop/Lightroom etc”. These people are in…
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How John Berger influenced my view of Fireworks In the first episode of his famous 1972 Television series Ways of Seeing, John Berger relates how the invention of the camera revolutionised how art is viewed, that is, it can…
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Eddie Adams’ iconic Vietnam War photo: What happened next ,I came across this article on the BBC News website discussing Eddie Adams iconic Vietnam War image of the execution of a Viet Con Prisoner. The Vietnam War was a…
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Mois de la Photo: making sense of the photograph in the web era Thanks to the camera-phone, we are drowning in images. Which are important, and what gives them meaning? In Montreal, a group of artists attempt to decide…
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