Rough ideas. Inspiration: Stanley Donwood, Scarfolk, Richard Marrs, Tom Burns. Painting, charcoal/pastel, printmaking, Photoshop compositing, Stop Motion, video, Premiere. sketchbooks. Photobook. Online gallery. ‘Edges Shifting’ is a personal and documentary project that develops a body of photography-based work about the Suffolk coast in the context of its social and environmental context that might have a […]
Category: 5.2 Colours of Shingle
Shingle Street is a small coastal hamlet in Suffolk, England, at the mouth of Orford Ness, situated between Orford and Bawdsey. Part of the coast is also known as Hollesley Bay. Fishing A community of fishing families and river pilots for the River Ore was established in the early 19th Century. Defence The four Martello towers south of Shingle Street were built in 1808-1809. […]
I really like the dark moody tone of charcoal. In the past I have used a range of techniques. Using willow/vine, compressed and condensed charcoal on different types of paper. I do have to be careful though using charcoal as I have a lot of problems with the dust. One way of overcoming this is […]
http://www.emmagreen.co.uk/default.asp Shingle Street sandlings
!! To be updated with discussion of whether there is such a thing as ‘women’s photography’. As opposed to just photographers who happen to be women. List of women photographers by country Portrait Landscape Some early women photographers did do serious topographical work in the late nineteenth and early 20C: Evelyn Cameron, Laura Gilpin, Frances […]
Jo Spence (1934–92) had a highly politicised approach to photography, creating photographs that run counter to the idealised imagery offered by advertising. Spence often worked collaboratively and sought alternative distribution models, laminating work for durability and renting out her photography to conferences, libraries, universities and public spaces to broaden its audience. She also documented her own struggles […]
google images Aaron Siskind (1903 – 1991) was an American photographer. Siskind’s work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if not a part of, the abstract expressionist movement. https://www.britannica.com/video/164452/Aaron-Siskind-influences-documentary-photography
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!! to be updated with debates from Documentary Photography course with references. It will continue my consideration of what might be meant by ‘alternative documentary’ in the light of discussions around walking and psychogeography and selection and treatment of what I draw and how I draw it in relation to both ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ dimensions […]