This blog is being made as part of on going academic research post an accredited education programme- MA Photography with Falmouth University
Gathered Leaves & From Here To There. “What function does [a picture] serve? This is the problem with work like mine – that is more lyrical than documentary. Like poetry itself, it is pretty much useless” (Soth, 2004). Alec Soths approach to publishing his work in print certainly does not follow a set routine. All
I plan to share this project via a number of means, exhibiting individual images in the environments they were created, a printed book, digitally via a dedicated websiteand eventually a whitewall gallery show. Covid rules out physical exhibitions and travel but things can change and its no reason not to at least explore what could
I thought my aim was to take topographical features from two or more countries and combine them to create a new place, I now realise these works are a reaction to my unease and anxiety with the world, finding myself unexpectedly but inevitably aligned with Metaphysical Art (the translation of the Italian Pittura Metafisica) which
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