University Update

This week we've touched upon what we have to do for our first module in Critical Practise which is to produce a 5 minute PowerPoint presentation analysing an image of our choice from about 20 different pictures ranging from:

Stephen Shore

to Annie Liebovitz

In our Powerpoints we have to look at one or more of the different analytical techniques and ways of interpreting images we've learnt about over the past few weeks such as the following:

• Structuralism
• Hermeneutics
• Feminism

As for visual practise, so far we've been asked to create images which deal with 'The thing itself', 'frame', 'time', 'vantage point' and 'detail'. This week we've had to create images which represent 'formalist', 'straight', 'document' and 'equivalent'. All of this along with research has to be collated in a sketchbook which is proving harder than it should be as I can't break myself from wanting to shove everything on a folder like in college!

I shall try to keep uploading images and posts updating on my projects and modules so far as I go along!

It's been a long time since I've uploaded any new images onto here so I'm going to upload one picture dealing which I took dealing with the 'detail' as described in The Photographers Eye by John Szarkowski.

This Wednesday we've got another guest lecturer coming in to give us a speech and luckily we get the photographer Laura Pannack. Previously we've had the picture editor from GQ magazine James Mullinger and the documentary photographer Kalpesh Lathigra.  

I'm excited for this lecture as it's a photographer whose name I've heard of so it'll be good to see the person behind the images I've previously seen in college!


Some images by Laura Pannack:

So, however many months after my end of year exhibition I've discovered that I can upload videos from my iPhone up onto here so I'm now uploading my exhibition (better late than never) and in the coming weeks I'll be taking a few videos on my phone from my weeks around Nottingham and university!

University Update 02/10/2012

The first two modules for my degree are:

•  Critical practise
• Visual practise

 I managed to get to grips with the printer in the library and found out where the photography section of it is in here; it's a very large and confusing building! I am also content with where all of the university buildings are and how to get to them by myself using public transport which is always a good sign.

Next steps for me now are to purchase the books I've been asked to get for my course and to continue attending my lectures and wait for some proper work to begin! I'm also planning on signing up for some sports clubs and societies including Burlesque dancing and the Rock/Alternative music society!

This Friday me and my flat are going to be visiting the Goose Fair which is a popular event in Nottingham so hopefully some pictures will be taken there!

I'll be updating again once I've been to my visual practise lectures and when I have some more information.

update!

Once again it's been a while since I've posted on here however I've got a lot to update on!

I've moved away from Peterborough and I am now living in Nottingham about to start my photography degree at Nottingham Trent University!

All of my photography equipment has moved in from home so I have two shelves covered in the stuff.

My induction for the course starts on Monday then the week after my lectures begin.

I shall be posting more regularly again when I get tasks set and have more photography related news to post about!

Dream Walking

Everybody dreams; when we sleep our imagination runs wild creating scenarios which can be surreal and fantastical. They can even relate to what goes on around our day to day life or induce a feeling of ‘Déjà vu’. However bizarre or ordinary they are, we tend to vividly remember parts of them or have no recollection at all. 

For me photography is an outlet for my own dreams and imagination to become a visualised reality in which I can share with other people. I aim to manipulate natural spaces and transform them, questioning reality. My work is there as a reflection of my own dreams in a finer detail bringing them to life. 

Being inspired and influenced heavily by the work of the American photographer Brooke Shaden whose work explores death and surrealism, I have been inspired for my series of images using every day natural scenes; turning them into dreamlike realms from my dreams.