This blog is being made as part of on going academic research post an accredited education programme- MA Photography with Falmouth University
We would like you to share the different research methods you plan to use this term when creating your Work in Progress Portfolio. As contemporary photographers today you will all be used to carrying out a certain amount of practical or contextual research before, and during, the creation of a body of work. My Project
“The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information” (Flusser) The leaning tower of Pisa, as iconically Italian as the Eiffel Tower is Parisian.However given
As part of the exploration as to where the images may finally be displayed I was overlooking a very simple and effective avenue. Instagram! So Obvious but not so obvious when you still consider the images or a project as work in progress. Sharing an idea feels kind of risky, what if its decried as
For this activity, we have been asked to create a ‘dummy’ publication that relates to our FMP project. A draft version in full. Whereas an exhibition operates in a specific space and towards an intended audience for a limited period of time, a publication offers a viewer an opportunity to live with a collection of
So this week has been fascinating, all very relevant to my own FMP even if I didnt realise it initially. Ive already written a short piece about how I approached the ‘hands off’ activity, essentially using a Google news search using the words, Trump, Border, Wall, Brexit to generate web pages and then screen capture
The nature of the images for this project means that whilst I am shooting large volumes of donor images final or experimental tableaus will not be numerous. Also I am finding whilst I have the start of many potential constructs the completion images may be some way off and will not be obtained until more
As part of my experiments with compositing topographical features I wanted to explore the possibilities of subverting well known (and possibly well loved) national architectural or natural icons. Starting with Lady Liberty, surely there can be no better known construction that everyone instantly recognises and whose meaning could be that of great pride, wonder, expectation
“A world without frontiers is an ideal that has always appeared to the more sincerely humanist individual as a world from which all forms of exclusion have been abolished”. “The notion of frontiers remains rich and complex. It does not necessarily signify compartmentalisation and separation. The ideal, egalitarian world may come not through the abolition
The project initially aimed to look at topographical and other features from various countries and cultures and see how interchangeable they might be since many features are now so generic globally. Marc Auget describes this phenonmenon and examines themes of airport lounges, carparks, supermarkets etc in his book Non Places, an Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity.