Project Tag: documentary

Assignment 5.3: Shutterscapes

Assignment 2b Amend: Shutterscapes Assignment 2.2 uses existing and new landscape photograph series from East Anglia, Cornwall and Northern England. The Assignment 2 project brief explicitly required me to focus on skills development rather than content and meaning. My aim was to start to significantly improve my digital photography editing skills and develop a number […]

Assignment 5.2 Documentary Narrative

Under the Bridge 1 Lead Photo

Much of my work is concerned with ‘alternative documentary of place’ and communicating ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ dimensions of: Whose place? different perspectives and interests. Looking particularly at what might be meant by ‘the female gaze’ and ‘multiculturalism’ When place? places change over time – even over a few seconds short term, long term, historical perspective […]

Assignment 4.3 Cuckoos at Dawn: outsider in a Kyrgyz village

Baizakh Original Spreads 4-5

Competing documentary perspectives: book concept Planned as charity book to fundraise for women’s associations in Kyrgyzstan, and also a participatory reflection and sharing of different ‘outsider’ and ‘insider’ perspectives on Baizakh. I re-select and re-edit the colour photographs, focusing on content and meaning rather than technical quality, using my skills developed in Assignment 2.2 Shutterscapes […]

Assignment 2.1 Edit: Bridge Printscapes

A14 Bridge 1 Power Queen Photoscreen Print 3
On whiter Somerset paper that gives maximum tone and detail on the ink. But again the white spots would need correcting through the inking process - they are not ther on the newsprint. If they are on the screen then they can be stopped out with fluid. But more detail on the left would require more detail in the original duotone image. This paper also gives a less authentic 'art look' that is less effective than the grungy screenprint image.

Assignment 2.1 Bridge Printscapes This assignment asks me to revisit and redo an earlier project that I would like to extend in some way – because it no longer reflects my personal voice and/or technical skills. This project uses images of the A14 Road Bridge across the River Cam where I walk every day to […]