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 […]
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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 […]
Photographer: Robert Adams – Summer Nights Walking
Adams created a series of images walking within and on the outskirts of Longmont, Colorado (ASX, 2010). A number of things strike me about the images within the set, some of which are shown below. They are square in format. This makes the viewer focus on whatever is in the image, front and centre. I […]
Exercise 2.4: Is Appropriation Appropriate
This exercise asks me to look at an from Geoff Dyer (Dyer, 2012) on artists that have captured scenes from Google Street view and asks me to answer the title of the exercise. I started this exercise with a pre-conceived idea of the images that would likely be simple screen grabs from google maps and […]
Exercise 2.3: Typographies
Typography is something I personally became interested in when I first started photographing people, but not something I have tried in a landscape context. I think I have found it difficult to understand where to start, what is it that makes a series of landscape images interesting enough to create a typographical series. I have begun […]
Photographer: Alec Soth, Sleeping by the Mississippi
I researched Alec Soth’s Sleeping by the Mississippi (Soth, 2004)) and in particular his interview by Schuman in See Saw Magazine (Schumann, 2004). Quotes given in this piece are from that magazine article. The first thing that strikes me when I look at the series that whilst it is inspired by a journey along the […]
Exercise 2.2: Explore a Road
Part 1 – My Road Photograph a road near you in any style you choose. I found this exercise interesting, as the contact sheet shows, I took a variety of shots but roughly half were shot looking along the road itself and half picking out points of interest along the road. On the contact sheet I […]
Exercise 2.1: Territorial Photography
Exercise Review the paper “Territorial Photography” by Joel Snyder, published in the book “Landscape and Power” by Mitchell, W.J.T. (2002). The University of Chicago Press. Review of Paper Snyder starts by stating that when photography was first emerging (1830s) people were unsure what it is was for or how it should be considered. By the […]