Reaching the end of EYV seems like a long road, but of course it is just the start of an even longer journey. In preparing my materials for submission, I have had to retrace my steps through all of the exercises and assignments and this has made me realise how far I have come. I […]
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Assignment 5: Rework Post Tutor Feedback
Technical My tutor spotted that some of the skies in my images were a little dark. This was a hangover from the fact that I originally processed the images in black and white where the treatment was appropriate. I was frustrated at myself not to have spotted this and the learning is to remember that […]
Assignment 5: Reflection
Demonstration of technical and visual skills I think that my assignment includes a good range of different industries and how they appear across the western Cotswolds. What strikes me most with this outcome is that I don’t think I would have produced such a set of images a year ago when I started this course. […]
Assignment 5: Submission
In August 2017 I carried out my own ‘Escape to the Country’ by moving from London to the Cotswolds. We spent much of our search in the Northern Cotswolds where most of the ‘chocolate box’ limestone cottages and rolling hills lie. The West is more rugged, more rural and contains more industry, so we largely […]
Research: Paul Hart, Farmed at Photographer’s Gallery
Exhibition I visited the Photographer’s Gallery and came across an exhibition by Paul Hart called Farmed, also published at his own website (https://www.paulhartphotography.com/farmed-2/). Hart has captured a series of images across the fens that focus on encapsulating the ‘flatness’ of the area but which is dotted with man made elements. His images are aimed at […]
Research: Illuminating India, National Science Museum
Exhibition I visited the Illuminating India exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The exhibition was a series of images that depicted the history of India over the past hundred and fifty years and was ordered oldest to newest. The very old photographs were largely posed images of people that resembled what might have been […]
Assignment 5: Initial Thinking
Thinking When first reading this assignment, I was horrified, no constraints! This was strange as I spent the previous four assignments thinking to myself that I could take much better pictures if only I was allowed to choose the content for myself. Of course, I was actually free to interpret all the briefs in any […]
Exercise 5.3: Information
My Single Element When I look at Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (See Fig 1) the point in the image that I find my eye returning to again and again is the leading leg and foot that is about to enter the water. Perhaps it is the anticipation of what will happen next, we don’t know […]
Exercise 5.2: Response to another photograph and Contexts
Exercise Select an image by any photographer of your choice and take a photograph in response to it. You can respond in any way you like to the whole image or to just a part of it, but you must make explicit in your notes what it is that you’re responding to. Is it a […]
Exercise 5.1: The Distance Between Us
Exercise In this exercise we were asked to capture a series of images that speak to the concept of “The Distance Between Us” Response This exercise made me think about the paradox of Social Media. On the one hand, the images help distant relatives keep track of each other, but on the other hand they […]