Look at some of the audio-visual slideshows on the websites listed above. Make some notes about particular works of interest, considering how they are edited, sequenced and how audio is used with images. Note down your own personal observations. Whether or not you intend to present your photographs for Assignment Five as an audio-visual piece,... Continue Reading →
Exercise 5.4 – Online exhibitions
An online audio-visual piece doesn’t necessarily have to be the piece of art in itself, but may simply be part of the ‘presence’ of the work, put together to promote it, possibly to coincide with an exhibition or publication, or to help generate interest more speculatively. This post by Sharon Boothroyd on WeAreOCA discusses a... Continue Reading →
Graffiti, white horses and street art
The images in this posting come from a recent visit to Haysden Country Park in Tonbridge, Kent. Haysden is unusual for a country park and could be considered ‘edgeland’; in addition to conventional ‘countryside’ it features railway brickwork and brutalist concrete (a flood barrier and an elevated section of the A21). The concrete elements are... Continue Reading →
Cahoot! Workshop – part 2
The second half of the ‘Cahoot!’ workshop was held, over Zoom, earlier today. 50 students, representing 12 of the original teams returned and showed the results of our collaborations. More on that later because equally important is the process of collaboration and art-making in a team that can only meet remotely. Our team was given... Continue Reading →
Exercise 5.3 – Print-on-demand mock-up
Whether or not you intend to produce a book to present your photographs for Assignment Five, suppose for this exercise that you will. During this exercise you’ll familiarise yourself with a print-on-demand application and experiment with a book design. If you don’t already have one, set up an account with a print-on-demand service, such as... Continue Reading →
Experimentation 3 – depicting cancel culture
A major current thread in the media (conventional and social) is the intolerance of groups in society for alternative views, expressed in terms such as ‘cancel culture’ and ‘snowflake', or in more concrete form by no-platforming, demonstrations, rioting and statue-toppling. Of course, it is possible that such things are fomented or exaggerated by selective reporting... Continue Reading →
Cahoot! Workshop – part 1
‘Cahoot!’ is a two-part workshop in the ‘Keeping up Momentum’ series organised by OCA level 3 student helen416376 (in this posting, I will use OCA student names/numbers, unless the person advises that it is OK to use his/her real name). Part 1 was held by Zoom conference on 10 April and part 2 will be... Continue Reading →
Transitions – finished shooting, and more thoughts on presentation
I made my final photography visits to the allotments during March, which means I have an archive of 14 months of images. Repeating February and March has been useful as it ties the two ends of the project together (daffodils at each end), while showing some year-on-year differences. There was snowfall in February 2021, and... Continue Reading →
Experimentation 2 – Photography and painting
It is received wisdom that Fox Talbot invented photography because he was frustrated at being unable to draw (multiple sources, unreferenced). This is, of course, a gross over-simplification and semi-apocryphal – but it serves as a starting point for this posting and a possible Assignment 5 project. Until this year, my last experience with an... Continue Reading →
Landscape Lines 