Introduction The aim of the course is to discover how photography enables people to make sense of themselves and their environment. This final self-evaluation attempts to explain how, through [...]
Introduction Following submission of the grid-based Lockdown story for Assignment 4, my Tutor recommended I read Rosalind Krauss’ 1979 essay ‘Grid’ (1) published by MIT Press. [...]
During his feedback for Assignment 4, my tutor suggested that I look at the Polaroid work of David Hockney. WOW. Hockney explains being disinterested in photography because he felt that the [...]
The Country Life series, curated by Val Williams, invited artists to respond to the George Garland Collection, archived at the West Sussex County Records Office. Garland made thousands of [...]
I have never considered myself a racist. But following the global outcry after the shocking police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020 I now understand that position is [...]
Brief Read chapter for something in Nothing in Cotton, C. (2014) the photograph as contemporary art. To what extent do you think the strategy of using objects or environments as metaphor is a [...]
Interview with Richard Wentworth with Gavin Morrison I find the best way to understand somebody’s art is to listen to them speaking, to try to discover what it is that causes them to make [...]
The American photographer William Eggleston (1939) is famed for his highly saturated images of everyday objects taken mostly in his hometown, Memphis. They feature such banal subjects as parking [...]
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. [...]
