Updates from Draft Version This assignment has evolved a lot since my original thinking. It has changed from one of being purely about signs to one about places. I am very pleased with the outcome. A number of changes have been post discussion with my tutor: I had to decide between separate images and a […]
Category: Part 5
Assignment 5: Post Submission Reflection
Technical and Visual Technically I am happy with this assignment. I think there is good consistency of framing on all of the images and they contain just the rights amount of context within the image – when the image is about the sign, then just the sign, and when it is about the sign or item […]
Assignment 5: Draft Submission
Introduction During 2020 the virus known as COVID-19 spread across the world at an astonishing speed. Over twenty million people were confirmed as having caught the disease and hundreds of thousands died. The disease was highly infectious and for many was asymptomatic which only helped to spread the disease further. With the reality of asymptomatic ‘Super […]
Exercise 5.3 Journey
The Journey I took these images on a journey from my home near Stroud to my workplace in Central London. Clearly they are taken during the COVID pandemic and they are at a time when the country is trying to phase itself out of lockdown. Life where I live has started to ease considerably, our area […]
Photographer: Keith Arnatt
Arnatt studied painting at Oxford and then art at the Royal Academy Schools (Keith Arnatt, n.d.). His interests lay in conceptual art; particularly the reductionist element of that movement and “in relating the presentation of art objects to the contexts of their viewing in a way that sought to activate those contexts.” (ibid.). Reductionism This concept is […]
Exercise 5.2: An Attempt at Exhausting a Place
Exercise Choose a viewpoint, perhaps looking out of your window or from a café in the central square, and write down everything you can see. No matter how boring it seems or how detailed, just write it down. Spend at least an hour on this exercise. What I saw I am sitting in my attic […]
Exercise 5.1: Traces of People
Exercise Create a set of still-life pictures showing traces of life without using people. Approach Where I live, in a Stroud valley, there is virtually no man made element and as we walk in the valley, which is nearly every day, we often reflect on how beautiful if is because of the fact that it […]
Photographer: Lee Friedlander – Letters from the people
Friedlander’s collection ‘Letters from People’ is a series of images that cover letters, numbers, words and sometimes whole sentences (Lee Friedlander: Letters from the People | MoMA, 1994). Fig X below shows an installation image of his work as it was displayed in MoMA in 1994. Fig. X is an installation image from MOMA and shows a part […]
Photographer: Richard Wentworth
I researched Wentworth after finding him within the course texts. The images that I could find online piqued my interest in the way that he has used considerable attention to detail in isolating small pieces of reality to create interesting, sometimes amusing, images. I decided to purchase the book Making Do and Getting By which contains hundreds […]
Photographer: Michelle Sank
I researched Michelle Sank after finding her through the British Journal of Photography. Sank’s collection where the collection My.Self is portrayed (Warner, 2018). The collection was created by Sank by simply approaching young people in the area of Sandwell and asking to photograph them in their bedrooms. I think that Sanks, as a woman, was perhaps more able […]
Reflection Point: Fact or fiction
I touched on this area in my reflection on Assignment 4. In my day job, I am successful or not by how much ambiguity I manage to remove from situations and I think that this flows over into my photography. I think I am prone to trying too hard to mark my pictures explicit. This is analogous […]