Following my tutor feedback and comments from other students I have made some changes to the images for this assignment. At the suggestion of another student I have included an artistic statement with the images so that my intention for the series and the end result are all in the same place. Artistic intention For this assignment I wanted to create a series of images that looked at national identity, how the United Kingdom and more specifically the English have responded to the coronavirus crisis and what this says about the country. There are several reasons for concentrating on England, … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text – revised images

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For this assignment I wanted to create a series of images that looked at national identity, how the United Kingdom and more specifically the English have responded to the coronavirus crisis and what this says about the country. There are … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text

I have decided to proceed with my idea based on shooting landscape images, partly for practical reasons, fewer issues with social distancing, and partly to challenge myself as I do not think of myself as a landscape photographer. I have looked online for newspaper headlines from the beginning of the coronavirus lock down and have been able to find these for most daily newspapers, the exceptions being The Sun and The Times. I have compiled a list of 10 – 12 headlines that I think I can use and have shot a couple of images to start experimenting how best … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text