Overall Comments This is the first assignment that you have undertaken to cover the requirements of the course. In doing so you have demonstrated a development of technical skill. You have started to work your way through the recommended exercises and this will help develop your visual awareness and an understanding of the course requirements. …
Category Archives: Assignments
The (in)decisive moment
Assignment Brief Create a set of between six and ten finished images on the theme of the decisive moment. You may choose to create imagery that supports the tradition of the ‘decisive moment’ or you may choose to question or invert the concept by presenting a series of ‘indecisive’ moments. Your aim isn’t to tell …
Decisions
When it was announced that the United Kingdom was going into lockdown and we would all face restrictions as to where we could go and for how long, I was beginning to think about what I would be able to do to capture the Decisive, or indecisive, Moment. I was aware that doing an assignment …
Collecting
Final Images Contact Sheets Assignment Notes My initial thought for this assignment was the result of two ideas. The first was a photograph of my niece taken in Edinburgh at the memorial to Scottish-American soldiers who fought in the American Civil War. The second idea arose after noticing a sign for Commonwealth War Graves at …
Collecting – Research
Bettina von Zwehl There is something about Von Zwehl’s (2019) work that draws me in. Is it the simplicity, the use of silhouettes or having her models where black clothing. There is a flow to her work which makes you want to dive in and see more. Meditations in an Emergency I found that, despite …
Square Mile
The brief for this assignment was to make a series of six to twelve photographs in response to the concept of “Square Mile”. My initial response to the brief was that I wanted to take photos of the River Yeo and the streams that feed it as they make their way through Yeovil. This idea …
Square Mile – Research
The following have spent time within their locality and/or in an autobiographical way: Keith Arnatt: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/keith-arnatt-666 From the webpage above I found my way to a page on the Tate website that showed 133 of Keith Arnatt’s images. One of the first that I saw was the Self-Burial (Television Interference Project). I was familiar with …
Jenna Powell - Expressing Your Vision 