The Matter Of The Black Country exhibition is but a couple of weeks away and this post describes some of the research that I have been undertaking in the cause of creating my final pieces. From architectural painters, youtubers,instagrammers and photographers for books.
Category: research
Day Two of the Matt Stuart Street Photography Workshop in London. Where we wander around the East End and then head over to the Barbican for a lovely fun feedback session.
Day One of a weekend of workshop with street photography legend, Matt Stuart. Find out which missions he sent us on and where wwe were shooting.
This week sees a scramble to get my freshly developed negatives of Dudley Zoo scanned in and then printed out in the darkroom. A session with Jim in the Print hub and a review of the project in the form of a presentation to the rest of the group.
Back to Dudley Zoo again to see if I can get some usable images out of a couple of rolls of Lomography Redscale 50-200. Featuring a YouTube video of som eof my journey around the zoo and how I chose to set up and take the images using my medium format camera.
Time for the conversation between photographers Richard Billingham and Tom Hicks, to discover more about the Black Country and its identity.
This week was a bit of printing in the dark room, a presentation of the midway review and a trip to the art gallery.
After the lecturer doesn’t show it’s time to jump in the car and go and continue the project by visiting West Brom, one of the undisputable parts of the Black Country.
Tuesday 7th May sees us Level 5 Students sit down with Sylvia for an assessment tutorial before the final hand in on the 9th May, this Thursday.
She has helpfully given us the info on the topics of conversation.
To accompany my exhibition work, the series of three photographs called Shutdown, I created a small zine that contained the three displayed images and the some of the shortlisted works that I decided not to use in the show.
This post is a review and reflection of the survey I created in MS Forms for use with my Visual Analysis Contextual work about Atmosphere in Photography.
The last tutorial before the Assessment Tutorial next week. A chat with Sylvia to check I’m on the right lines for the work to be submitted.
Early on in the year I started by looking into Liminal Space as a possible theme for my Practice for this module. I started out by making images of spaces that were uncanny, strange, confusing and odd places whilst reading about Liminal Spaces on the web.
Some of my research that I found when investigating my Practice around Liminal Spaces and my Contextual essay on Atmosphere in photographs.