Summary of a 15 minute interview with Erik Kessels

Summary of a 15 minute telephone interview with Erik Kessels conducted on 26th October, 2016. For Assignment 3, “We are all photographers now” my essay led me to an analysis of the language used in the 2011 Arles Manifesto “From Here On” drawn up by Erik Kessels, but I had some questions for which I…

My poetry progress so far

Recently, I  signed up to do a 6 week poetry workshop through Coursera because I want to sharpen my ways of expressing myself.  I know that this is a photography blog but I feel that the succinct ways of expressing images are very similar in the 2 forms of expression – it depends on the…

The music of landscape

This is the https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNBCNews%2Fvideos%2F1508045779215447%2F&show_text=1&width=560” most inspiring item I have heard, seen and read in a long time and it resonates, in many ways, with my being.

The start of my sketchbook.

One of the topics for discussion at the last Thames Valley Group meeting was ‘sketchbooks’ and how we use them.  I only started using one, as an experiment, in April, after I had started the DI&G module .  Why was everyone insisting that they were an indispensable tool in their practice?  Why are so many esteemed…

TV Group meeting

We met at Bordon which, for me, meant an overnight stay with my eldest and another 90 mins drive on Saturday morning into the depths of I don’t know where but it’s a good thing that Fran in my SatNav knew! It was a big meeting with 13 members, two of whom were new, plus…

Transcribing Landscapes: a residential course involving poetry, landscape and photography.

Transcribing Landscapes 20th – 24th June, 2016 Dartington Hall, Dartington, Devon Fellow OCA student, Catherine Banks, had sent me this information in February because she knew I would find it tempting: Join us for this residential week as we explore our relationship with landscape with Fiona Benson, Richard Povall and special guest artist – Garry…

Documentary results

The results are out & I have passed with a 2:1.  There were many positives in the summative assessment: “Overall Comments and Feed Forward The assignments and related research were clearly laid out and easy to access on your learning log. It was clear that the research carried out during the course of this module…

MoMA: Seeing through photographs

I have just successfully and on time finished the 6 week course produced by MoMA & offered by Coursera.   The course was very informative, the reading extensive and the contemporary photographers mostly thought-provoking. The 3 photographers I found most thought provoking  and who will, in all probability, influence my future work were: Walid Raad, founder & sole member…

Exhibition review: Annie Leibovitz:Women: New Portraits

Exhibition: Photography Title: Annie Leibovitz:Women: New Portraits Theme: Women Venue: Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London. Date attended: 25th January, 2016 Curator: Annie Leibovitz Location, setting, atmosphere: As we entered we were told that we could not take photos with our cameras.  Could we take them with our phones?  Yes. So we did. The former power station is…

Peter Kennard: Unofficial war artist

Photography, photomontage, paintings and mixed media exhibition Imperial war museum, London. Date of visit: January 24th, 2016 Curator: Richard Slocombe. Location, setting, atmosphere: Paradoxically set in the Imperial War Museum which, presumably, houses pro-war memorabilia. It was set in four spaces all dealing with different aspects of Kennard’s take on wars in general & the…