Assignment 2 – vice versa – tutor feedback

My tutor’s feedback for assignment 2 can be read here. The online feedback session was very useful and I will be making the changes suggested by my tutor, namely adding the sitters names to the images, amending the David Bailey quote and adding a link to my blogpost about Irving Penn; although I made reference to it in my post about the assignment I did not post it until after our discussion. Continue reading Assignment 2 – vice versa – tutor feedback

Daniel Meadows

Daniel Meadows (b.1952) is a British photographer, photography and digital media teacher. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic in the 1970s alongside other notable British documentary photographers including Brian Griffin and Martin Parr. In the Spring of 1972, Meadows rented a disused barber’s shop on Greame Street in Moss Side, Manchester and opened a free photographic studio. Although he had to close it after two months, due to lack of funds, Meadows would use the experience to develop one of his future projects. After The Shop on Greame Street, Meadows produced two series with Martin Parr, Butlins by the Sea in … Continue reading Daniel Meadows

Irving Penn – Worlds in a Small Room

Irving Penn (1917 – 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits and still lives. Worlds in a Small Room, was a collection of photographs taken by Penn spanning a period of over 20 years which were taken whilst he was working on fashion shoots for Vogue. The photographs are portraits shot in studio conditions and started with a trip to Cusco, Peru, in 1948 where he hired a daylight studio to photograph with Northern light (Penn, 1974). Later on he had a custom studio tent built which he used on field trips between 1967 and 71. … Continue reading Irving Penn – Worlds in a Small Room