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Assignment 4: Digital Identities 1 research

Develop a project around the theme of identity within the current digital climate.  This could be an autobiographical exploration examining how you relate to digital culture, or it could be a more critical examination of an aspect of digital culture. … Continue reading

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Assignment Two Research: Photo Selection and Processing

Whilst conducting research on those photographers who influence this assignment, I made my decision on the images I would use for this assignment; as I had already reported, I wanted to continue with the exploration of my family’s photo history, … Continue reading

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Assignment Two Research: Inspiration

Over the past few weeks, we have looked at many photographers who use the found image in their art; it is no secret, that this form of ‘photography’ does not sit well with me, which is why I have chosen … Continue reading

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Assignment Two Research: The Design of a Photobook

Whether it’s to look back on a trip, a birth, an anniversary, a vacation, a wedding or just for the pleasure of putting together a few great pictures, you won’t be lacking in occasions that warrant their own photo book!  … Continue reading

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Assignment Two Research: The Photobook

Photobooks have been around for almost as many years as photography and during their infancy, they tended to pay homage to topography[1]; Francis Frith and John Tomson published photographs from their adventures to the Middle and Far East, while other … Continue reading

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Assignment Two – The Archive

For our second assignment, we have been asked to produce a series of related images that use a readily available online archive (or archives) as their starting point. We are to make a small book for this project, using proprietary … Continue reading

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Assignment One: Combined Image – Part 2 Trial

The second part of this assignment calls for us to use our post-processing skills to produce a single digital-montage using the elements from a minimum of two and a maximum of five digital files; the components of our final image … Continue reading

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Assignment One: Combined Image – Part 1 Trial

Over the past week I have been playing with the assembly of my tangible Photomontage, I have not actually taken scissors to my final choice of images, although I have been trying to reproduce the final layout with the aid … Continue reading

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Defining Assignment One: Combined Image Part 1

Being quite patriotic, and with armistice day fast approaching, I have decided to use the theme of war heroes for the first part of this assignment. Having parents who grew up during the second world war, I have heard many … Continue reading

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The History of the Photomontage – abridged

Narrowly speaking, photo-collage began with the cut-and-paste work of album-makers such as Lady Filmer and the combination printing of photographers such as Oscar Rejlander.  But the anti-establishment photographic experiments that originated in both Soviet and German experimental photography had different … Continue reading

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