For my critical review I intend to review the series Candlestick Point by Robert Blatz. I had already suggested a review of Blatz to my tutor and he agreed that this was a suitable topic but that I should focus my study onto a single collection aiming for depth over breadth. I have chosen Candlestick Point […]
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Assignment 3: Reflection
Technical and Visual I am happy with the technical accuracy of my images in terms of capture parameters such as exposure and the like. I have chosen to stick with a 5:4 format which I find achieves a nice balance between a width to show the scene I want to show but with a stronger focus […]
Assignment 3: Final Submission
Landscape as Political Text This assignment explores the impact of sustainable energy on the North Cornwall countryside. I have captured these shots in the same week that the G7 are meeting, in Cornwall, with sustainability high on their agenda and so the timing and location seemed very appropriate. We think of sustainability as a way of protecting […]
Research: Panoramic Capture
A day off from capturing images for my assignment and so I decided to experiment with my recently acquired L-bracket and Levelling head by taking some panoramic shots. Not a creative act in itself, but in the spirit of pushing my photography further, I thought it would be a skill that I could use in the […]
Assignment 2: Final Submission
Feedback Reflection My tutor’s feedback for Assignment 2 was encouraging in relation to my process, my work method, and in the way that I have challenged and compared myself to the research that I have undertaken. One area that did strike me was his comment “I feel that your personal voice is growing but I […]
Exercise 3.6: ‘The Memory of Photography’
This exercise summarises and draws some conclusion on Bate’s paper The Memory of Photography (Bate, 2010). Photography and its relation to human memory Bate’s document discusses the relationship between photography and memory. In particular he discusses whether or not it helps or hinders one’s recollections. His paper is titled The Memory of Photography and he begins […]
Photographer: Susan Lipper, Trip
Lipper’s project Trip is a collection of 50, square, images intended to portray an imaginary trip across America. Each image is accompanied by text written by Barthelme which read in conjunction with the images does evoke a different inquiry into each image but is not directly written to tell a story of the images themselves. Taken […]
Photographer: Luc Delahaye, History
Delahaye began his photographic career as a documentary prhotographer and in that role, won three World Press Photo awards and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for reportage twice (O’Hagan, 2011). Looking at the images he took during this area, they are shocking in their directness of capturing the consequences of war. Fig. 1 is an example. […]
Exercise 3.5: Local History
Stroud’s industrial heritage is rich, the town is famous for the production of cloth helped by its five valleys and rivers that were used to drive the mills. One of the main areas that the industry focussed on was Chalford (Industrial Heritage | Visit the Cotswolds Stroud District, n.d.). In fact, “From the 1500s until the […]
Photographer: Paul Reas, Flogging a dead horse
Paul Reas’ Flogging a Dead Horse (Reas, 1993) is a collection of images that portray the British Heritage tourist industry. This is an industry that sells itself as providing a view into the past, onto the heyday of Britain’s industrial revolution, and its Empire. This industrial era has now gone, and so we have an industry based on […]
Exercise 3.3: Late Photography
Review of Campany, Safety in Numbness This exercise reviews Campany’s essay “Safety in Numbness: Some remarks on the problems of ‘Late Photography’ (Company, 2003) Campany’s essay uses Meyerowitz’ collection Reflections of Ground Zero, a set of images taken in the aftermath of the New York’s 9/11 as the basis for his analysis but his discussion points […]
Exercise 3.2: Postcards
Postcards The postcards shown below are all captured from the internet after searching for “Cotswolds Postcards”. I do not have any of my own postcards and, seeing as I live in the area was interested to see what the results would be. The main site I found was Zazzle which is where these images come from (Cotswolds Postcards, […]
Exercise 3.1: Reflecting on the Picturesque
What is picturesque? For me it means something that warms my heart when I look at it, but this is not an objective statement, so something more precise is required. Earlier in this course in Exercise 1.3 I collected a set of paintings from the 18th and 19th century and then found photographic images that were of a similar […]
Assignment 2: Post Submission Reflection
Technical and Visual Skills Aspect Ratios – In response to Adams’ Summer Nights Walking (ASX, 2010), I shot an earlier exercise in square format. I was hoping to achieve a focus on the key subject of the image and I found that this worked for the exercise but not so well for this assignment where I found […]
Assignment 2: Draft Submission
Artist’s Statement Outside Stroud’s town centre lie the edgelands, its five valleys dotted with weaving mills, canals and other relics of industry-past slowly decaying, curiously becoming more picturesque as time marches on. These valleys, the landscape, continue their journey, nature reclaiming what it never really gave up. Go further and you will find the true countryside, this is where Toadsmoor Valley can be found, […]
Photographer: Edward Burtynsky
Burtynsky has created a number of different projects each of which is a typology of a different industrial scene shown within the surrounding landscape. His website (Photographs — Edward Burtynsky, n.d.) shows these collections as individual typology collections that include Water, Oil, Mines and Quarries. Each collection is strict to its typology. It would have been possible […]
Exercise 2.6: Edgelands
We were asked to read the chapters Power and Wire from Edgelands (Farley, P. and Roberts, M.S., 2011). Wire Of the two chapters, Wire for me was the closest to bringing to life Edgelands, an area that marks a boundary between town and countryside marked by a “cross-hatch of wire”. The chapter talks of wire acting […]
Exercise 2.5: Text in Art
Write down 12 – 24 brief observations during a short walk or journey by some means of transport A walk in Toadsmoor Valley Back in an hour Go this way Gate after gate Guided by wires Or penned by wires? Protecting the unspoilt or spoiling? A house, another house, and another Another gate Glimpses of […]
Photographer: Pieter Hugo, Permanent Error
Hugo’s series Permanent Error is taken in Agbogbloshie and area of land outside Accra, Ghana (Hugo, 2010). It is an area where discarded computer equipment is disassembled and broken down into their base parts. In Hugo’s words it is a “dark and dirty monument to the digital age”. When I first looked at Hugo’s images I was […]
Photographer: Frank Watson, Soundings from the Estuary
Watson, a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Westminster University (Watson, n.d.) has produced a number of sets of images that portray the relationship between man and land and in particular, ‘the spatial relationship between landscape and architecture’ (ibid.) Whilst studying LPE this is a topic that I have become very interested in. His series Soundings from […]