Following my final feedback session with my tutor I wanted to document and reflect on my exprience working on assignment five and the key things I have learned from the assignment. Background Often with assignments I find it difficult to … Continue reading Assignment 5 – Personal project – reflection
Below is a link to the document I created combining images and text, this work has been heavily influenced by Philip Toledano’s Day with My Father. Also posted are the single images without text. In dicussion with my tutor, they felt the work was compromised, there being too much text and the images being too small. Their suggetion was to think again about the presentation and to try and add some more detail images. Continue reading Assignment 5 – Personal project – My Father
Taking on board comments from my tutor I have decided to present my submission for this assignment as a short video. My original idea for presenting the images was influenced by the work of Philip Toledano and my tutor felt that the images were overshadowed by text and were not large enough. I think that the video has enabled me to address these points. This is my first attempt at producing a video and although it is very basic, I feel it is more engaging than a presentation or PDF of individual images. Background The series is only the start … Continue reading Assignment 5 -Re-worked submission – My Father
Working on assignments two and three made me think about the importance of light. This may seem obvious, after all, the term photography comes from the Greek and means drawing with light, however, I think it is only for my … Continue reading Appreciation of light
I have re-worked this assignment and included some new images. My aim is to use the quality and strength of light to signify the move from the dark times at th peak of the second wave to a more optimistic … Continue reading Assignment 2 – Single image narratives – re-worked
The Oostende International Photobiennale features works from thirty Belgian, Dutch and French photographers. The biennale runs from the beginning of September until late October and work is displayed at twenty-eight locations throughout the city including several galleries and museums as well as large, outdoor installations. As I was only in Oostende for a short time I was not able to view much of the work and whilst I found some of it to be quite trite, I liked that the exhibition was in large part displayed in public sites, thus enabling people to engage with the work without having a … Continue reading Internationale Fotobiënnale Oostende
Feedback from my tutor for assignment 5 can be read here. I found the feedback session very useful, in particular our discussion about completing the work featuring my father. My plan now is to spend the next couple of months … Continue reading Assignment 5 – tutor feedback
Having submitted my work for assignment five to my tutor, I thought I would re-visit the images I had taken of my father as part of my initial idea about photographing old people living on their own. What I realised … Continue reading Assignment 5 – My Father
Materials For this assignment as the images were all shot on the same day and over a relatively short time period, I relied on viewing the images on screen and did not think it was necessary to print them. Techniques … Continue reading Assignment 5 – reflection
Documentary, Fact & Fiction 