Informing Contexts – Concluding Thoughts
Informing contexts has brought some order to the chaos of imagery that now exists in the world. From the early […]
Resolving Work In Progress Portfolio and Intent
Since the start of the year my wife has died, Corona virus has struck and today I am in my […]
Critical Review of Practice – Prior Work
This was a challenge. Two factors helped make progress. The first was interpreting ‘practice’ to mean the project for this […]
Consideration of Techniques in Theatre to Captivate an Audience
At the Symposium at Falmouth I had the pleasure and good fortune to meet Tim Stubbs Hughes. At his portfolio […]
Week 8 – Responses and Responsibilities
This week I am struck by the question posed by Steph : ‘which is better at provoking environmental concern’, the […]
Week 7 – Vision 2020 – Falmouth Symposium
What a stimulating week with so many talented and interesting people and a great programme. I left energised and full […]
Critical Review of Practice – A Theoretical Perspective
The first critical review of practice focussed on practitioners, methods and styles. This review focusses on theory. As a mathematician […]
Critical Review of Practice
The time feels right to gather together my critical review of my practice. I hate the phrase ‘it has been […]
Independent Reflection Week 6 – Power and Politics
This week is titled a ‘Sea of Images’ but for me a number of strands are coming together and they […]
A Better Version of Us: A Small Photographic Atlas on Moving On (Falmouth Symposium 2020)
I am travelling to Falmouth on Sunday. I cancelled my trip to London from Spain this week partly because of […]
Independent Reflection – Week 5 – The Gaze
All white Western males see white Western females as shoppers and homemakers. All photographers are voyeurs. Women would maximise all […]
Independent Reflection – Week 4 – A Beautiful Way to Die
My interest this week has been captured by the interplay between image and text. The distinctions of sign, signifier, signified, […]
Independent Reflection – Week 3 – Constructed Realities.
I start by reminding myself there is no absolute reality as much as we would like there to be one. […]
Independent Reflection – Week 2
Quotes of the Week “I am a photographer, not an artist,” he says. He deems the conflation a “very American” […]
Photography, Vision and Representation
This is the title to a journal article of the same name by Snyder and Allen. Since photography was invented […]
Independent Reflection – Week 1 Shape Shifter
This has been the most profound week of my life as my wife, Karen, passed away peacefully and beautifully on […]