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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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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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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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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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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