This academic year I’ve been working on a project that involves manipulation and disruption of images. This post details where I started from and all the stars that aligned in order for me to produce something I was happy with.
Category: photographers
I’d love to be Batman, fighting injustice in the world, but it’s not going to happen. Instead I’ll stand up for the rights of photographers who are told incorrect information regularly. No police involved this time.
SpacePlay came to Wolves to do a concrete Easter egg hunt for three sold out groups of people with the chance of winning a concrete egg based on the MK Building. I volunteered to assist the endeavours and had some fun too.
A day trip to London for a Street Art exhibition and a wander around Battersea. All whilst making images on my camera that might come in handy to illustrate my whereabouts..
Semester 2 Week 10 saw us all sit down individually with Alice for a progress review of the academic year so far. Read here to see whether I’m on track or not. Warning: this post contains some rather blatant bragging and flexing.
This lecture contained a workshop on Book Binding so we can prepare work for display or sale and also some wise words and work on artist’s statements.
Alice asked us to consider display strategies for photographs and I looked back at the exhibitions I’ve visited this academic year.
Find out which one was the weirdest..
What started off as a bit of nostalgia dn reminiscing about school days turned into research about prefab houses and then full circle to find out some family history long before my school days.
An opportunity to go for a walk around the Wolves city centre with Instagram legend, Black Country Type. Who wouldn’t take up the opportunity?
Student competition for Ilford? Don’t mind if I do. See how I get on with creating some prints on Ilford paper from Ilford film..
Writing for a Student newspaper? Why would I spend time doing this? What would I even submit? Find out how I got involved, what I did and why I think it’s a great thing to have done.
For a book binding workshop I designed and printed a zine of images from University Of Leeds campus. Printed on Riso printer, why did I expend this much effort?
This Friday was a busy one, an early appointment in the Print Support Hub with Jim to finish my Riso Prints followed by a Progress Review with Alice about my progress thus far.
This week we were to discuss Artists who use their body in their work, until I had to leave to go to the hospital to be with my very sick father.
Tuesday afternoon was a dark room kind of afternoon. With the tutor being off poorly I dived into the red lighted room to create some prints.
Today saw our group learn about the relevance of Family Albums and artists who work with them. Then a talk about Essay writing skills ahead of our assessment.
Del Loewenthal is a psychologist who developed an approach to photography that categorises images into four distinct categories depending on who has the power in the relationship and who benefits from the production of the image.
As an individual task ahead of next week we were asked to construct our own Ethical Window…..
Today’s seminar was to discuss Ethics in Photography and how it impacts all of photography including the photographer, subjects, publishers and wider world.
We were split into groups of two and tasked with discussing what we thought about a number of questions.
This week we visited our sketchbooks and understand how to produce a successful example. We also had a very personal experience with Alice sharing her practice for her Degree and Masters.
A day in January to go to Leeds for a Brutalist Architecture exhibition about University Campuses and then a jaunt around the impressive architecture that is Leeds Uni campus. Using Digital, Film and Drone cameras.
Tuesday Night Print Club saw us look into the magical world of Silk Screen Printing. Laura showed us around the Screen Printing area and helped us make sense of the overwhelming nature of everything in there. We were introduced to the equipment, processes, waste handling and just how messy it can get.
This week saw the second half of the Riso learning and a use of Gibbs’ reflective cycle to analyse how we got on with the Riso Printing sessions.