This blog is being made as part of on going academic research post an accredited education programme- MA Photography with Falmouth University
After what has been a very difficult year with any travel, let alone overseas travel out of the question I was over the moon to finally be give the all clear to make a trip to the US to shoot more material for my FMP. Having to use a mixture of BA reward miles and
What is Pittura Metafisica? After grinding to something of a halt with perhaps too many open threads to my project and now the added complications of the Covid 19 lockdown I turned to research again in an attempt to make sense of my newest compositions made with the images captured form the early March Road trip.
Antipodes (2014) The Antipode series consists of a series of photographic diptychs always juxtaposing two exactly opposite points of the globe in a single image. The work was shot in a three-week period, traveling from Spain, to Peru, from Peru to Hawaii, to New Zealand, to Thailand and finally to Botswana, covering the stretches of
So this week I had the first of my one to one meets with my supervisor Laura. A really useful session, not without its challenges because she’s thrown some questions and ideas into the pot that I’d never given any previous thought to but I can see by considering these things it will help me
Part of my project beyond the composite tableaus is to look for non places in the way Marc Auget describes them. Rooms, area and structures that have no geographic identity whatsoever. Their function over riding their aesthetic or wholly defining it. Its also curious how certain objects the world over are all made from the
Project Methodology Toshio Shibata says “If we take landscape photography for example, they say there is nowhere in the world where people have not visited. Assuming that is true, but knowing every individual has a different approach to taking photographs, something different will emerge in your photos even if you go to places people have
Finally the start of the final major project is here and I have to say its exciting but also a little daunting. We have been assigned our module supervisors and mine is Laura Hynd, a photographer whose work Ive followed for sometime as it happens. We were asked to produce a Pecha Kucha presentation to
Coldwar Steve has taken a very interesting approach to his latest exhibition by inviting the public to download hi res images to print out as they like and display in any order with the aim of creating multiple exhibitions in all kinds of locations possibly globally. He challenges not only the art ‘establishment’ but also
Sydney Opera House, surely one of the most instantly identifiable structures on the planet, built in Sydney Harbour after an international design competition was launched in 1955 and received 233 entries, representing architects from 32 countries. The winner, announced in 1957, was Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect. However what if Australia hadnt been colonised and Sydney Harbour never established. Its reasonable
Borders exclude, I felt the need to look at those excluded and the fallout from their exclusion. This led inevitably to the ongoing migrant crisis and the awful implications for those caught up in it. So many people fleeing from war zones all heading for perceived places of safety or where relatives already live. I