Monthly Archives: December 2017

Exercise 2.3

This exercise requires us to produce a piece of work that explores the family photo album and its iconography or to reflect on representations of the self in digital culture.  As I am a little stumped as to what I … Continue reading

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Project 3: The Digital Family Album

The Family Photo Album Photographs are used as objects by which we remember the significant people that cross our paths and special occasions that shape our lives therefore, the photo album becomes the archive of these events thus enabling us … Continue reading

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Response to Tutor Feedback from Assignment One

During the Google Hangout with my tutor last week, he commented that the digital montage I created for Assignment One was not as convincing as the work conducted against my war-hero Photomontages.  We discussed some ideas on how I could … Continue reading

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Exercise 2.2

For this exercise, we are to write 500 words on a piece of work by one contemporary artist-photographer who uses the archive as source material in their art. It is no secret that Joachim Schmid is a hoarder of photographs … Continue reading

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Formal Assessment Results Photography 2: Landscape

For the fourth time during my studies with the OCA, I have spent the past few weeks checking my student email account, waiting on the final results for the formal assessment of my work against the Photography 2: Landscape module; … Continue reading

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Tutor Feedback from Assignment 1: Combined Image

This morning my tutor and I had a Google hangout to discuss the work from my first assignment as well as the feedback and results I received from my Photography 2: Landscape assessment, which I will write about in more … Continue reading

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Project 2: The Artist as Archivist

The Internet as Archive In an interview, artist Oliver Laric was asked a question about his art: DQ: You have said: “I don’t see any necessity in producing images myself – everything that I would need exists, it’s just about … Continue reading

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Exercise 2.1

For our first exercise in part two of this course we have been asked to bring together a series of 12 images (a typology) in which a particular motif appears again and again.  For this exercise, we can use found … Continue reading

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Project 1: The Artist as Curator

Our coursework opens with the following quote from Fred Ritchin (2008); What I would suggest to a lot of young people who want to become photographers in a post-modern world is that they can become photographers of images.  They are … Continue reading

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