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Brief Find words that have been written or spoken by someone else. Create five images that do justice to the essence of those words. Background As I have mentioned many times I decided in March [...]

On her website, I viewed the series ‘If you get married again, will you still love me?’   What a powerful set of images. They take you into the mind of the child – depressing to see.  [...]

I found this work difficult to access.  Favrod says that mystery is important to him.  When he exhibits he presents an artist statement at the entrance of the [...]

Brief Change captions to bend the image to different and conflicting points of view. Image 1 Original caption: UK’s rating of its Covid-19 response lowest of 14 countries in poll Revised [...]

The Story – Ayia Napa 1990 The first holiday Sharon and I had was at the Cypriot resort Ayia Napa. I believe that was in 1990. Memories fade, but I have three recollections. I remember [...]

Brief In this short essay, I will explain Barthes’ description of linguistic messages and, looking at the work of Lange, Evans, Frank, and Freed, discuss the use of captioning within [...]

Brief Review a few advertising image/text combinations. Does the text allow for personal interpretation or does it close the image down? What was the intention of the creator?

Introduction I recently bought a photo book, ‘Before Winter’, by the Croatian photographer Olga Karlovac and to gain a better insight into her work I listened to an interview with [...]

Introduction First published in 1966, the book ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ is based upon the 1964 MoMA exhibition, curated by John Szarkowski (Director of MoMA’s Department [...]

Introduction The Age of the Image (1) is a four-part BBC documentary series in which art historian Dr James Fox explores how the power of images have transformed the modern world. This blog post [...]