End of Course Learning Outcomes

LO1 demonstrate an ability to make technically accomplished photographic work and apply technique purposefully and appropriately I think that my Assignment 5 is the most technically accomplished piece of work.  I think this due to the technical technique used in capturing the images, but also in the editing and production techniques to create the physical book. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Research: Rhetoric of the image – anchorage and relay

Learning from reading paper I read Barthes’ Rhetoric of the Image (Barthes, 1964) in which he uses the image of an advertisement for Italian food ingredients, but used within France, to illustrate his concepts (see Fig 1.) The overarching thrust of his paper (which is written in his usual style and means that it takes […]

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019

I visited the Taylor Wessing 2019. Photographic Portrait Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery . Previously, when I was reflecting on Assignment 2, I wrote “ I did feel that the need to capture the subject as the main person in the frame did reduce creativity in terms of one’s ability to control the frame and […]

Fill-in Flash to balance daylight, and the effect on what the viewer sees – Ken Grant

As part of my feedback for Assignment 1, my tutor suggested I take a look at Ken Grant and in particular look at how the images with flash compare to those without the flash. The images below are taken from Grant’s collection ‘The Birdhouse’. He has not captioned the individual images on his website (Grant, […]