Identity and Place -Additional work after feedback on Part Three Assignment: Mirrors or Windows
Additional work to original assignment After my feed-back session with my tutor and being given permission to swerve away from the brief, I mentioned that whilst wandering in the community I often had a feeling that I had stumbled into some sort of middle class, suburban “Narnia”. On one occasion whilst looking down and alleyway…
Identity and Place – Part Three Assignment: Mirrors or Windows – Reflection on part three
I found this unit (Part three) very interesting, informative, and as always discovered things about photography, photographers, art and and about myself! I had never really thought about images as windows or mirrors and found it fascinating to see how much of these ideas were in my photos quite unconsciously. Trying to do this the…
Identity and Place – Part Three Assignment: Mirrors or Windows
Brief Choose ONE of the following: ‘Mirror’ Choose a community that you’re already a part of. It could be your child’s nursery or your regular gym class, but it should be something that takes up a substantial amount of your interest and time. Create a photographic response to how this group informs who you are…
Identity and Place – Part Three Assignment: Mirrors or Windows – Research and Planning
Mirror The brief for this assignment started with the words “Choose a community that you are already part of” My first thought was that I’m not part of any community! I had a look at a definition for the word Community a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government,…
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…
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