Cut out some pictures from a newspaper and write your own captions. How do the words you put next to the image contextualise/re-contextualise it? How many meanings can you give to the same picture? Try the same exercise for both anchoring and relaying. Actual headline - Help needed to trace Lower Pyke Street fly-tipping culprit.… Continue reading Project 2 – Exercise – Anchoring and relaying captions
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Project 1 – Exercise – The Dad Project
Read Campbell's accompanying text which contextualises this project, much like the photo essays of the 1940s. How does Bryony Campbell's The Dad Project compare with Country Doctor? Bryony Campbell is a photography from London. She documented her father's death from cancer with a series called 'The Dad Project'. I was consumed with so many emotions… Continue reading Project 1 – Exercise – The Dad Project
Project 5 – Exercise – Composite image
Instead of using double exposures or painting from double negatives we now have the technology available to use to make these changed in post-production, allowing for quite astonishing results. Use digital software such a Photoshop to create a composite image which visually appears to be a documentary photograph but which could never actually be. The… Continue reading Project 5 – Exercise – Composite image
Project 4 – Sectarian Murders
Look online at Paul Seawright's work, Sectarian Murders. - How does this work challenge the boundaries between documentary and art? Listen to Paul Seawright talk about his work at: http://vimeo.com/76940827 - What is the core of his argument? Do you agree with him? - If we define a piece of documentary photography as art, does… Continue reading Project 4 – Sectarian Murders
Project 3 – Contemporary street photography
Do some research into contemporary street photography. Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Paul Graham, Joel Sternfeld and Martin Parr are some names to start with, but you may be able to find further examples for yourself. Black and white was firstly used in photography due to technical aspects which has since been developed. It took a… Continue reading Project 3 – Contemporary street photography
Project 2 – Critical debates
If your interested in the critical debates around photojournalism, try and make time to find out more about at least one of these critical positions during your work on Part One. 1. Charity - Martha Rosler Martha Rosler believed that the social conscience of well-meaning photographers such as Lewis Hine was not helping the social… Continue reading Project 2 – Critical debates
Project 1 – Exercise – Citizen journalism
A photograph gives us the impression that we are there. By offering us a point of view on an event or scene, we are tricked, however momentarily, into believing that we're looking at the scene rather than a photograph of the scene. We are not witnesses, only the photographer was there, but the photograph gives… Continue reading Project 1 – Exercise – Citizen journalism
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