Exercise 2: Street Photography
Brief Find a street that particularly interests you – it may be local or further afield. Shoot 30 colour images and 30 black and white images in a street photography style In your learning log, comment on the differences between the two formats. What difference does colour make? Which set do you prefer and why?…
Exercise 3: Public Order
Look at some more images from this series on the artists website. How do Pickering’s images make you feel Is Public Order an effective use of documentary or is it misleading Initially the images made me feel sad that we live in a society where we need these kinds of training facilities and also at…
Exercise 5: Critical Analysis
Read the section entitled ‘The Real and the Digital ’ in Wells, L. (ed.) (2015) Photography : a critical introduction . (Fifth edition.) London, [England] ; New York, New York: Routledge. pp.92–95. At: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucreative-ebooks/detail.action?docID=196 8918 Does digital technology change how we see photography as truth? Consider both sides of the argument and make some notes…
Exercise 4: Digital Manipulation
Use digital software such as Photoshop to create a composite image which visually appears to be a documentary photograph but which could never actually be. My composite image consisted of 2 images, (Fig. 2-3) which I found on line, I was inspired by Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips (2002-2019) Photo Op series and in…
Research Task: Challenging Boundaries
Look online at Paul Seawright’s (1998) work, Sectarian Murders How does this work challenge the boundaries between documentary and art? Listen to Paul Seawright talk about his work at: https://vimeo.com/76940827 What is the core of his argument? Do you agree with him? If we define a piece of documentary photography as art, does this change…
Exercise 1: The Impact of Citizen Journalism
Find some examples of news stories where ‘ citizen journalism’ has exposed or highlighted abuses of power. How do these pictures affect the story, if at all? Are these pictures objective? Can pictures ever be objective? Write a list of the arguments for and against. For example, you might argue that these pictures do…
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