This is a place for me to store those moments of clarity, understanding, additional thoughts, and generally a place to put items that I feel are important to me and also to help my tutor work out where Im going and what Im thinking away from or in addition to the assignments and coursework.
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…
Read moreLearning 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…
Read moreReducing 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…
Read moreDiscovering Bernd and Hilla Becher: Landscape/Typology
Whilst undertaking research for part one of Identity and Place I came across an exhibition by the German conceptual artists and photographers, Bernd and Hilla Becher. They took a large number if photographs of industrial buildings which they organised into grids. They had observed that structures such as cooling towers, grain elevators and oil refineries,…
Read moreEnd of unit and Assessment Reflective Evaluation
My Tutor gave me some great advice early on in this unit, and that was to keep a log of all those moments of discovery, interesting thoughts, learning highlights etc. It was such useful advice and really helped to find a place for all those things that previously would end up as short paragraphs or…
Read moreI don’t know enough about “ART”- Learning Highlights
07/04/2021 After my previous post below, I made a concerted effort to research artists referenced as inspiration for images. I need to understand the depth of the inspiration and get more of an idea of what it might mean across the board for photography in general, and for me. I am hoping that the more…
Read moreUnconcious understanding! – Learning Highlights
17/03/2021 As I worked my way through C&N part three and continue through part four, I have started to realise that even though I have not had the tools or the understanding to deconstruct images, a great deal of the time I have actually taken from them what the author wanted me to. I have…
Read moreCommunicating something through the use of images – Learning Highlights
I’m currently working on assignment three and have just realised that I am starting to really think about what I am trying to communicate through the images. I keep getting stuck, confused and losing sight of what I’m trying to do. I then find myself asking myself what it is I am trying to say!…
Read moreAssignment Block! – Learning Highlights
I often finish an assignment but feel a bit unsatisfied. During a feedback zoom meeting with my Tutor , he happened to mention the fact that projects often take months/years to complete in the “real world” and sometimes it’s quite hard to create something in the relatively short time given to complete assignments. This helped…
Read more” A beautiful photograph is nice” – Learning Highlights
These are words I heard during a very helpful and interesting zoom session run by Dr Ariadne Xenou. It was a session relating to C&N Part Four, Reading Photographs. As I am not far off finishing Part three I decided to join the session. These words stuck in my mind and has helped me to…
Read moreToo many things to think of! – Learning Highlights
In the past the aim has been to get an image that was technically as good as possible and of course this is a given. What I am realising however is that there is so much more to an image than just the technical side and that I need to focus on those; perhaps even…
Read moreBackground, Colour, style and detail – Learning Highlights
Back ground, colour, style, detail – can all be important in order to get across and idea, a feeling, an emotion or make a statement. Realised during and after research task Francesca Woodman, and from feedback on the first 2 assignments. This will help me when I revisit them and in particular the overall look…
Read moreRepresenting a feeling – Learning Highlights
Whilst planning one of my childhood memory images( C&N part three) I found my self thinking about how to represent a feeling of being safe and secure in a small bedroom with a curtain across. I immediately thought of something my tutor had said whilst we were discussing both my first and second assignments. He…
Read moreSelf portrait – Learning Highlights
15th March 2021 From Part Four C&N Research Task: Insomnia The size of the image is discussed (it’s big) suggesting that Wall wanted it to gab peoples attention and also commenting on Walls own words when he stated that the image was made in response to the words “When a prince doesn’t sleep well,…
Read moreUsing art to explore other issues – Learning Highlights
Just read something that added to my understanding of the ways in which photography can be used. This will help me with assignment one where I am trying to use my mums diary. Moffatts’ approach to representing the conditions of history gives us an experience of how sociohistorical issues that are normally explored through anthropology and writing…
Read moreInspiration from another photographers work – Learning Highlights
Going back to Trish Mossisys’ photography and her series Front (2005 – 2007) where she replaced one of the female members of a family. It struck a cord with me (sometime after) when I found myself thinking how similar her photos were to my own situation when I met my birth family. I have no…
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