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 […]
Category: Photographers
Photographer: Moussa Kalapo
I came across Kalapo when reading the Summer 2020 edition of the RPS Contemporary Photography journal (Ashley, 2020). The images that I saw are typical of those that I might have passed over before my studies but have come to appreciate more and more because of the story that they tell rather than their aesthetic impact, although […]
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 […]
Photographer: Aubrey Wade
I discovered Wade through the British Journal of Photography and a feature on her collection covering refugees in the UK and the families that have adopted them (Clifford, 2018). The images are taken from her project ‘No Stranger Place’. As well as the subject matter and the images themselves, I was interested in the extensive use of […]
Photographer: Karen Yeomans
I came across this photographer as she was featured by the Association of Photographers (AOP) (Yeomans, 2020). In her profile on the AOP site she says “I’m on a mission to help women be seen, it makes my creative heartbeat. I search for alternative representations of femininity through photography to discover the strength and depth of its […]
Photographer: Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry is known for his images of India. I chose to look at his images in more detail because I was specifically reflecting on a conversation that I had with my tutor about the importance of framing and the attention to detail in images, even when they are taken in non-posed situations. McCurry’s images are mainly […]
Photographer: Cocoa Laney
I came across Laney as I was attending a talk held by the Royal Photographic Society based largely on her project ‘belle’ (RPS,2020). Her project interested me because in many of her images, and outside of the image itself, she makes strong use of text. Laney describes herself in the following way “an American documentary photographer currently […]
Photographer: Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson photographs tableaux photographs (Gregory Crewdson, 2020), meaning constructed scenes in which he aims to tell a complete story in a single shot. His images are influenced by films such as those from Hitchcock (ibid.) and this is very clear looking at most of his images which are filmic in their appearance, Fig. 1 is an […]
Photographer: Stephen Gill
Stephen Gill, born 1971 (Stephen Gill (photographer), n.d.), has produced a series of collections that are predominantly inspired by living in East London. Many of his images are of everyday scenes that one might walk past and never take the time to stop and study them. An example might be one shown below in Fig. […]
Photographer: Nial McDiarmid
Background I researched Niall McDiarmid after he was suggested to me by my tutor after Assignment 2. In my Assignment 2 Reflection, I had made a bit of a throw away remark that I had chosen black and white presentation of my images because I wanted to position my images in the street photography domain, […]
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 […]
Diane Arbus and random portraits
Having read ahead to Assignment 1, I have already started to think about just how that might pan out – and wondering if it is really is possible to simply walk up to several strangers. With this top of mind, and whilst researching Diane Arbus as part of reading the course text, I found this […]