Identity and Place – Part Five Exercise 3: Your Journey
Brief Your journey may not involve travelling the world or an excursion across Russia, but you might see your journey to the post office every Monday as particularly relevant – or the journey from your bed to the kitchen in the morning. Note the journeys you go on regularly and reflect upon them. Now photograph…
Identity and Place – Part Five Assignment Five: Planning and Creation
One of the things I find myself using a great deal whilst out and about with my camera is benches. I sit on them to have a rest or to sit and watch, hoping perhaps for that “decisive moment” In a previous exercise where we were asked to spend an hour sitting watching and taking…
Identity and Place – Part Five Assignment Five: Your Inspiration
Brief Look back at the themes we’ve examined relating to place and our presence within it. What areas inspired you most? The culmination of this course is a self-directed assignment where you have free rein to choose a subject that relates to any of the material discussed in the course. You may have gathered skills and…
Identity and Place – Part Five Reading Task: Something and Nothing
Brief Read Chapter 4, ‘Something and Nothing’ in Cotton, C. (2014) The Photograph as Contemporary Art (3rd edition) London: Thames & Hudson. You will find this on the student website. To what extent do you think the strategy of using objects or environments as metaphor is a useful tool in photography? When might it fall…
Identity and Place – Part Five Exercise 2: Georges Perec
Brief The French writer Georges Perec wrote a book called An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris ( 1975) in which he wrote down everything he could see from a certain viewpoint. You may like to read it. A further work by Perec is entitled ‘Species of Spaces and Other Pieces’, the first chapter…
Identity and Place – Part Five Exercise 1: Still Life
Brief ● Create a set of still-life pictures showing traces of life without using people. You could do this with your camera phone to reflect the vernacular and transient nature of these moments or you could choose to use high-quality imagery to give these moments gravitas, like Nigel Shafran. ● Your technical decisions should back…
Identity and Place – Part Five Assignment Five: Research – Chris Forsyth
Chris M Forsyth Chris M Forsyth is a photographer and bookmaker from Canada. He says about himself and his work “Through my research-based practice in photography and bookmaking I explore the complex and overlapping relationships we have with place. In projects linking themes of history and human geography, I approach landscape as a layered archive.…
Identity and Place – Part Five Assignment Five: Research – Francesco Margaroli
Francesco Margoli Francesco Margaroli is a self taught Italian contemporary photographer His series Nowhere and Nowhere 2 are images of abandoned or empty fun fairs and once again the fact that there are no people present make them even more present! “If you photograph an absence, you also reveal the presence.” Margaroli, F (nd) I…
Identity and Place – Part Five Assignment Five: Research – Ward Roberts
Ward Robers Ward Roberts is a New York based artist. “drawing on themes such as the effects of loneliness and isolation in the modern world” “the artist’s perspective is fresh and engaging, the sophisticated aesthetic are often contradicted by subtle unscripted moments. a soft drenched colour pallet is a common theme. there is an innate…
Identity and Place – Part Five Assignment Five: Research – Emptiness
Images with or without people! Why I can images of mundane normal everyday things be investing. Are we down to images with people in more than images without? There are so many photographers that take images of “emptiness” By that I mean images that seem to have nothing much ion them. No people, nothing of…
Identity and Place – Part Five Assignment Five: Research – Yevgeniy Kotenko
Whilst researching for this assignment, I came across a series called “On the Bench” by a Ukrainiun photographer Yevgeniy Kotenko. The images taken over a 10year period of people on and around a bench located outside his parents house. The series was unplanned. “I wasn’t thinking of making a series or a project,” Kotenko told Colossal.…
Identity and Place – Part Five Assignment Five: Research – Emin and Taylor: Beds!
This part of the course is all about “Removing the Figure” and by doing so it leaves us with a notion of what was there, what should be there or indeed in some cases what will be there. It can fire our imagination with something exciting or something sinister. What is not there is often…
Identity and Place – Part Five Research Task: Personal Reflection
Brief Research Task: Personal Reflection Where does that leave the photographer? As storyteller or history writer? Do you tend towards fact or fiction? How could you blend your approach? Where is your departure from wanting/needing to depict reality Make some notes on these questions in your learning log. William Eggleston’s series Memphis doesn’t seem to…
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