I began this course worrying that it would pull me away from artistic expression and back towards creating aesthetically appealing images which I now would call the painterly tradition. I could not have been more wrong, the course has evolved my appreciation of the landscape discipline and the many options available to express what I want […]
Category: Learning Log
Photographer: Ingrid Pollard
From the course material I investigated Ingrid Pollard further. In the course her work Miss Pollard’s Party and Pastoral Interlude are highlighted. In these series she reflects on her relationship, as a black person, with the British countryside which she sees as a an area occupied by predominantly white people, see Fig. 1. This caught my attention as […]
Photographer: Melanie Friend – The Plain
I reviewed the collection “The Plain” by Melanie Friend (Friend, 2021). This body of work is taken in Salisbury Plain which is both a conservation area and a military training ground. Her work aims to show the tension between the two. On a personal note, I was so taken by her images on the website, I chose to purchase […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
Photographer: Friedlander, America by Car
Frielander’s series America by Car was taken travelling by hire car across most of America’s 50 states (Lee Friedlander: America By Car, n.d.). The images are all taken from inside the car and show different scenes of America outside the car. From each scene, one sees a different element of American culture. What I especially like about the […]
Photographer: Justin Partyka
I enjoyed looking at Justin Partyka’s website and images (Partyka, n.d.). They are closer to where I feel that my interests have moved to rather than the stereotypical landscape image such as the example I included in Exercise 1.1 of this course.