my journal
To what extent has text been part of your practice up to this point? When have you found it most effective? Can you think of instances where your use of text – titles or captions perhaps – has ‘intimated’ too much for the viewer? Has text ever undermined your photographs? In a self-portrait […]
To integrate learning from the Positions and Practice module themes, and to establish a departure point for future research, conduct and record a reflective presentation on your current photographic practice. Your presentation should critically examine the motivations, objectives, themes and concerns that underpin your photographic practice to date. You may therefore wish to discuss your practice prior to your studies on this course and […]
Although he did something entirely different for a living, my father was a classically trained pianist and alternated his afterwork and weekend “armchair time” between watching football matches and listening to classical music. The fact that he skipped a generation or two before having kids of his own meant that he got to be the […]
Despite their superficial similarity, these two images tell very different stories. According to Tony Northrup’s exposé, Afghan Girl (1985) is a perfect example of the western’s fetishism of the unknown. Sold (and profited off of) as an authentic image of a refugee girl who was scared of the soviet war on Afghanistan, the dark story […]
In this ad, IKEA is deliberately not showing a product in its totality but appealing to our humanness and our shared understanding of the zeitgeist. Most people will recognise the image of an anonymous chair piled up with clothes. It’s as if “IKEA” has been inside our home and seen our most private spaces. The […]
What challenged you? I felt that in the webinar there was a strong focus on “what we want to do” or sort of putting us in defined boxes in terms of the kind of photography work we pursue. I believe I’m at a stage where I still need to explore before I narrow my […]
The assignments Jane Bown went on for six decades for The Observer had incredibly limiting circumstances. She usually had very little time to photograph a celebrity (who may or may not have been collaborative), in a space she often didn’t know, using nothing but a very simple mechanical camera, without a light meter, and making […]
The classic mirror and window analogies in photography, to me, meld into each other towards a look inside, into the unseen. As a photographer, I identify with both analogies as I see the object of the photograph as a window into myself, regardless of the subject being indeed myself or others. It is my belief […]
