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Category: Surfaces and Strategies

Stanley Knife and worm

Text and images or Text versus Images

SS - Contextual Research SS - Project Development Surfaces and StrategiesAugust 6, 2020August 13, 2020

Deciding what to do with text in my current project is one of my biggest headaches. The fundamental idea behind Brave Faces was that it would be a visual response to my father’s unpublished novel of the same title. I have tried various iterations, from including slides with swathes of text. But that, repeated over […]

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BraveFaces a photobook

Brave Faces – A Photobook Dummy

SS - Coursework SS - Project Development Surfaces and StrategiesJuly 26, 2020August 13, 2020

Okay, I’m hooked. I’ve never made a book of any sort before. But I’ve found planning, sequencing and the act of making, choosing and creating a small photobook really helpful in the overall handling of my project. Jorg Colberg’s Understanding Photo Books: The Form and Content of the Photographic Book asked a series of key questions […]

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Brave Faces – Adding the First Text

SS - Contextual Research SS - Project Development Surfaces and StrategiesJuly 14, 2020August 13, 2020

Presenting my work in progress so far last Thursday to the group led to mixed feedback. For those who had not seen my work for some time, some felt it was a large shift in direction from people to objects. For my tutor, Michelle, the project was becoming saturated with ‘things’ and not enough of […]

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A Road Map to a Brave Faces micro-Exhibition

SS - Coursework SS - Project Development Surfaces and StrategiesJuly 4, 2020August 3, 2020

Exhibition plan: To be ultra local with the exhibition space being the parcel shelves of cars parked on my own street. Why the backs of cars?  First, it is a means of display that combines viewers being outside and to socially distance whilst also protecting the prints. Second, it is in keeping with the theme. […]

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Fight against the camera?

SS - Contextual Research Surfaces and StrategiesJune 28, 2020August 3, 2020

Some really interesting questions posed this week, not least about my personal relationship with the equipment I use and the choices I am making. Equipment, especially, because I have been granted the great luxury of working with digital medium format for the first time. I have access to just a single lens to go with […]

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The Tiger who came to Tea

Rethinking the method

SS - Contextual Research Surfaces and StrategiesJune 21, 2020August 3, 2020

With access to my potential subjects severely limited, I’m having to reconsider everything to move forward. For me, this module could not have come at a better time, challenging me to rethink how I can respond visually to my area of examination in some very different ways. For two images this week, I have experimented […]

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strange little figures

The ‘zines week

SS - Coursework Surfaces and StrategiesJune 20, 2020August 3, 2020

The challenge this week was to put out a collaborative zine with other members of the cohort. Having never created a zine before, I was also really keen to have a go at it myself. Based on a piece of work done for publication earlier this week I thought my images of random items handed […]

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Adrian Woodbridge

Where am I?

SS - Contextual Research SS - Project Development Surfaces and StrategiesJune 14, 2020August 3, 2020

My current practice is social documentary photography, which dovetails well with my primary role as a writer and photographer largely for editorial features. I’m beginning to see convergence between my approach to personal work and my editorial assignments. In this piece on chaplains, for example, I found myself drawn less towards safe portraiture and more […]

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EmmaMergedMontage2

Emma and the Ed Ruscha challenge

SS - Coursework Surfaces and StrategiesJune 4, 2020August 3, 2020

It is not the type of photography I’m really drawn to, which might explain why the Ed Ruscha Challenge was actually good for me. My reading of his 26 Gas Stations was peppered with thoughts of the constancy of these gas stations in an in-motion world. Rather like the grain elevators of Frank Golkhe, they […]

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Emma's Socks

Brave Faces: A Research Proposal

Positions and Practice PP - Contextual Research PP - Coursework PP - Project Development SS - CourseworkMay 12, 2020August 3, 2020

Well, it’s done. I found the creation of a comprehensive research proposal such a useful exercise in and of itself. Both in terms of realising in literal black and white the potential complexities of my own project to look at lone fatherhood but also to set out a route towards completing it. For anybody who […]

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