I thought I hated taking pics of people!- Learning Highlights
Am just about to start part three of Identity and Place. I really thought I was going to hate the whole unit, being that it deals mainly with self portraiture and portraiture. I don’t like and never have like photos of myself (and never take any) I also hate taking photos of other people. I…
Identity and Place – Part Three Exercise 4: The Gaze
Brief “The picture serves as a trap for our gaze.” Durden, M. & Grant, K. Double Take: Portraits from The Keith Medley Archive (2013) Liverpool: LJMU Archives. Pg 15. This exercise gives you the opportunity to explore the image as a window with which to trigger memory. ● The objective here is to produce a…
Identity and Place – Part Three Exercise 3: Reflecting
Brief Write a reflection in your learning log about some of the ways in which marginalised or under-represented people or groups could be badly or unhelpfully portrayed. Examples of marginalised to under – represented groups can include the following: Racial minorities People with various forms of disability People living in poverty Homeless people People who…
Identity and Place – Part Three Exercise 2: Your Personality
Brief Make a list of some aspects of your personality that make you unique. Start taking a few pictures that could begin to express this. How could you develop this into a body of work? Aspects of Personality Hate being late Can get anxious and overwhelmed Shy around strangers Hate seeing photos of myself, hate…
Identity and Place – Part Three Exercise 1: Mirrors and Windows
Brief Go through your photographic archive and select around ten pictures. Separate them into two piles: one entitled ‘mirrors’ and the other entitled ‘windows’. ● What did you put in each pile and why? ● Did you have any difficulties in categorising them? You may like to repeat the exercise with some different images and record…
Learning Highlights: My personality shows up in my images – who’d have known!
I completed one of the exercises in part 3 of Identity and Place, which involved going through my archives and looking for images that could be categorised as Mirrors or Windows. In a later exercise in part 3 I had to write down some of my personality traits that make me unique and then think…
Reducing pressure to get the shots!
One thing I have found is the the pressure on me to take shots for assignments and exercises has increased as I move through the units. This may be down to my own expectations and the fact that I should be getting better at this the more I do it and the images should be…
OCAPhotography 