For this exercise I have decided to change the approach given in the course folder and instead of using someone else’s words, I have borrowed someone else’s approach. In my submission for assignment four I used words written by other … Continue reading Exercise 4.5 – Image & text (P.101)
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
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
I have been struggling to find a way to move forward with this assignment which I know is due to the lack of clarity about what I am trying to achieve and, more specifically, what text to use. I have an idea of how I would like to present the final images, prints with handwritten text, my thinking about this having been influenced by the looking at the work of Duane Michals, Jim Goldberg and somewhat tangentially, Elsa Dorfman. However, the words remain something of a struggle. My first idea is to find a poem that is about identity and … Continue reading Assignment 4 – Image and Text – initial thoughts
Whilst looking for work by photographers that combine image and text I came across the work of Cocoa Laney, an American documentary photographer currently based in Southern US and the UK. Her series Whole House Held is a collaboration with … Continue reading Image & text
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