Category: Final Project

Pho 704 Week 11 Exhibiting Thoughts

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

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704- Week 10 New Project Image Palm Springs Opera House

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

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PHO 704- Week 10- The Digital- New Possibilities-Instagram

Instagram.  Love it, hate it and frustrated by it, love it again…. current status mild indifference . I have two Instagrams https://www.instagram.com/martinbrent/   This being my commercial account and Ive had it for quite a long time.   For my MA and burgeoning (ie not very existent as yet) fine art career this one https://www.instagram.com/martinbrentguest/  which

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Pho 704 Week 4 Reflection & Work In Progress

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

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PHO 704 Week 3: Forum – Art & Commerce

Ive always worked professionally in photography,  all I ever wanted to do growing up in the recession hit 80’s Midlands was be a photographer, my early influences being ads in glossy magazines, notably at that time cigarette ads, although Ive never smoked,  I was very attracted to the ads, the concepts behind the image, the

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PHO 704- Week 1- Research Methods

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

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Pho 703 Reflection- An Impasse

This module has proven pivotal in moving my project along.  Ive looked at different ways of presenting the images, creating the images.  Its involved exploring the moving image and the brief to create a trailer led me into looking in a less linear manner, by which I mean moving my gaze away from the tableau

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PHO 703 Week 11: Work In Progress

“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

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PHO703- Work In Progress

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

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Pho 703 Week 9 Reflection & Observations Part 1

One of the big learning curves and discoveries for me during this module is that your art doesnt have to be printed huge and stuck to a wall in a gallery to be ‘art’.  An image can be made and displayed in a myriad of ways and indeed these methods may well contributes to the

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