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    • Assignment 1 – The Non-familiar
    • Assignment 2 – Vice Versa
    • Assignment 3 – Mirrors or Windows
    • Assignment 4 – Image and Text
    • Assignment 5 – Your Inspiration
  • Coursework
    • Introduction to Identity & Place
      • Exercise 1 – Constructing a portrait (P.24)
      • Exercise 2: The Square Mile – Midsummer Common (P.26)
    • Part 1 – Origins of photographic portraiture
      • Exercise 1.1 – Historic portrait (P.38)
      • Exercise 1.2: Background as context (P.41)
      • Exercise 1.2 – Background as context (p.41)
      • Exercise 1.3 – Portrait typology (P.45)
    • Part 2 – Studio and street
      • Exercise 2.1 – Individual spaces (P.58)
      • Exercise 2.2- Covert (P.64)
      • Exercise 2.2 – Covert (P.64)
      • Exercise 2.4: Same background, different model (P.70)
    • Part 3 – Mirrors and Windows
      • Exercise 3.1 – Mirrors and windows (P.74)
      • Exercise 3.2 – Your personality (P.80)
      • Exercise 3.3 – Reflecting (P.80)
      • Exercise 3.4 – The gaze (P.85)
    • Part 4 – Image and Text
      • Exercise 4.1 – Looking at advertisements (P.90)
      • Exercise 4.2 – Reflective day (P.94)
      • Exercise 4.3 – Storyboard (P.95)
      • Exercise 4.4 – Alternative interpretations (P.95)
      • Exercise 4.5 – Image & text (P.101)
    • Part 5 – Removing the Figure
      • Exercise 5.1 – Still life (P.124)
      • Exercise 5.2 – George Perec – (P.127)
      • Exercise 5.3 – Your journey (P.132)
      • Exercise 5.3 – Your journey – revisted (P.132)
  • Learning log
  • Exhibitions and visits
    • Lucien Freud – Self-portraits – Royal Academy
    • Artist in conversation – Tracey Emin – Royal Academy
    • Artist in conversation – David Bailey – Royal Academy
  • Expressing your vision
  • Context and narrative

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Introduction to Identity & PlaceLeave a comment

Exercise 2: The Square Mile – Midsummer Common (P.26)

January 12, 2020January 17, 2020 517401 OCA Photography

This is the second time I have done this exercise, the previous one being the first assignment of the module Expressing Your Vision. Having completed Expressing Your Vision and Content & Narrative, I wanted to put into practice what I … Continue reading Exercise 2: The Square Mile – Midsummer Common (P.26)

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Exercise 1 – Constructing a portrait (P.24)

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 517401 OCA Photography

If you have a social media profile picture, write a paragraph describing the ‘you’ it portrays. What aspects of yourself remain hidden?If you were to construct a more ‘accurate’ portrait of yourself, including various aspects of who you are, what … Continue reading Exercise 1 – Constructing a portrait (P.24)

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Exercise 1.2: Background as context (P.41)

January 11, 2020September 8, 2020 517401 OCA Photography

August Sander (1876 – 1964) was a German photographer who was active in the first half of the 20th century. Whilst running his own commercial studio, Sander began taking photographs of the farmers in rural Westerwald. This led him to … Continue reading Exercise 1.2: Background as context (P.41)

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Exercise 1.1 – Historic portrait (P.38)

December 27, 2019August 13, 2020 517401 OCA Photography

Do some research into historic portrait photography. Select one portrait to really study in depth. Write a maximum of 500 words about this portrait, but don’t merely ‘describe’ what you see. The idea behind this exercise is to encourage you … Continue reading Exercise 1.1 – Historic portrait (P.38)

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