Today I had a small talk on the European Exchange part of my course which happens in my second year of study which I am extremely interested in doing! If I did make it onto the programme I could live in the country of my choice anywhere from 3 months this a year.

Three institutions I am interested in going to are

• Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland
• Fachochschule Dortmund, Germany
• University of the Arts Bremen, Germany

My next step is to research further into each of these institutions, the cities and create a personal statement and portfolio which I can give to my university that'll show my interest in applying for the programme! I need a first and second choice university.
Ideally I'd like one of the institutions in Germany but I will have to cross my fingers and see what happens.


I have also received my questions for my critical practise module this term and I have to produce a 2,500 word essay on.

Questions I feel I would be able to answer the best are:

1. Produce an interpretive encounter with a photograph making use of the concepts presented in lectures and seminars.

2. Is the purpose of documentary photography to persuade or to record? Consider this in relation to two documentary images of your choice.

3. Outline Szarkowski's Formalist program for photography and refer to specific photographs and photographers. Discuss the problems of Formalism and again refer to specific examples.

My next plan after this will be to write down miniature structures to each of the questions, see what texts and notes I already have on the texts that link to the questions and see then which would be the easiest afterwards.