Showtime: The Oral Presentation for Sustainable Prospects
Hey! So here’s my presentation considering where I’m at with my current photographic practice.
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Category: SP Coursework
What if everybody suddenly took up painting?
I’ve begun to find the ongoing discussion about the impact of digital capture in photography really tedious. Fred Ritchen, in After Photography (Into the Digital), warns of “digital” photography as a “Trojan horse” that will both “end and enlarge” photography as “we have known it”. He compares “analogue” and “digital” photography to vinyl records and […]
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The trials and tribulations of Instagram
This week I realised (finally) I had become something of an old dog. An old dog that is a little loathe to learn new tricks. This week, we were focusing on digital marketing channels, particularly, it seems Instagram. Of all of the social media channels, Instagram is the one that gives me the biggest headache. […]
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Pitching for the Oxfam Second-hand September campaign
The task: To pitch a creative proposal for Oxfam’s 2021 Secondhand September campaign. The result: Catwalk at Your Doorstep, which was a hybridised group effort which took elements from a number of different early ideas from our group members. At its most basic, the idea was to create a campaign that was especially accessible for […]
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Rethinking the Commercial World
I’m starting to feel quite excited about our brief for Oxfam’s Secondhand September campaign. Partly, because I feel we have a good pitch. But mainly because it is a potential commercial sphere I’ve never considered before – that of working with large organisational clients on a story/conceptual approach. I think I’d dismissed the idea of […]
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Business Plans for Creativity
Why, oh, why have I never asked myself the most obvious of questions: Could I make a decent living from doing what I love and, if so, how would I do it? I know part of the reason for this. I love my current job. I get to write, photograph and produce television. So technically […]
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Research and Photography
Some really interesting insights from fellow students this week on how they see/use research in project development. Analysing their responses, they boil down to three main areas: Professional context: What has been done before in relation to my project? How has it been done? What can I learn from the shortcomings or learnings from the […]
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