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Assignment 5 – Making it up

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After a bit of a hiatus, a damp but very enjoyable two weeks in France, I have visted my father to get hold of the objects I want to photograph for this assignment. Unsuprisingly many of the items I was hoping to use were nowhere to be found, despite trawling through drawers and boxes they seem to have disappeared. However, I have managed to get hold of several items that I instinctively associate with my mother even if I had not thought of them originally. Whilst I have an outline of how I want to use focus and exposure to … Continue reading Assignment 5 – Making it up

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Assignment 4 – A picture is worth a thousand words – re-worked

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My Dear Yakutia My revised submission for assignment four can be read below or viewed as a PDF here. The image is one from an on-going series entitled My Dear Yakutia by photographer Alexey Vasilyev, who describes the series as a photographic ‘love letter’ to Yakutia (officially The Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation) looking at the impact environmental factors have on its inhabitants. According to Vasilyev’s website his work [… focuses on the daily life of people in the far North and their national identity in the global world] (Vasilyev, 2019). Yakutia is Russia’s largest geographical republic and has some claims to national … Continue reading Assignment 4 – A picture is worth a thousand words – re-worked

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Assignment 5 – Making it up – artistic intention

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For this assignment I want to create images that look at the idea of memory and more specifically my memory of my mother. After suffering from Alzheimer’s for over ten years my mother recently died. During the period of her illness I witnessed her memory loss and the impact it had on her ability to engage with the world and look after herself, until shortly before her death she could not remember how to swallow and so was unable to eat or drink. However, it is not my mother’s memory loss that I want to explore but rather mine. Since … Continue reading Assignment 5 – Making it up – artistic intention

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Assignment 4 – A picture is worth a thousand words – tutor feedback

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As I expected the feedback from my tutor was uncompromising and can be read here I have never found essay writing easy and I think my tutor’s feedback was basically ‘not interested in what’s happened in the past, sort it out’. He made the point that written work accounts for approximately half the overall mark for the degree course and that if I want to continue then I need to address my issues with essay writing. To that end I will take some time and re-work this assignment. Continue reading Assignment 4 – A picture is worth a thousand words – tutor feedback

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Assignment 4 – A picture is worth a thousand words

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My initial submission for this assignment was based on a photographer by Alexey Vasilyev. The image is one from a series entitled My Dear Yakutia by Russian photographer Alexey Vasilyev. Vasilyev (1985 -) was born, and still lives, in the Republic of Sahka (Yakutia), a vast region in the north east of the Russia. After graduating in Philology in 2008 he went on to work for a local children’s newspaper The Voice of the North. Vasilyev’s interest in photography started quite late and it was not until he was nearly thirty that he started posting images on Instagram. In 2017 … Continue reading Assignment 4 – A picture is worth a thousand words

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Assignment 3 – Putting yourself in the picture – tutor feedback

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Feedback for assignment four can be read here. I found the feedback session very useful as it high-lighted a some areas that I have overlooked when submitting my assignments and I think there are two key learnings to take from it. The first learning is to know when to stop and the second to think more about how I present my assignments. Although I started the assignment in a negative frame of mind and did not enjoy the diary keeping element of it, when it came to producing and image I had a very clear idea of what I wanted … Continue reading Assignment 3 – Putting yourself in the picture – tutor feedback

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Assignment 4 – ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’

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In looking for a photograph to write about for this assignment I came across the work of Alexey Vasilyev and in particular his series My Dear Yakutia. Vasilyev was born in 1985 in Yatusk, the capital of the Sakha (Yakutia) Repulic in Eastern Russia. The Sakha Repulic is a vast region with an area of just under 1.2 million square miles and a population of under one million. It is also one of the coldest places on the planet with temperatures dropping to minus 60 degrees celcius in winter. The series looks at the identity and daily lives of people … Continue reading Assignment 4 – ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’

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Assignment 4 – ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’

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Write an essay of 1,000 words on an image of your choice. The image can be anything you like, from a famous art photograph to a family snapshot, but please make sure that your chosen image has scope for you to make a rigorous and critical analysis. • If you choose a well-known photograph, take time to research its context – the intentions of the photographer, why it was taken, whether it’s part of a series, etc. Add all this information into your essay to enable you to draw a conclusion from your own interpretation of the facts. • If … Continue reading Assignment 4 – ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’