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One to look at ..amazing images and values

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Big Idea - Enterprise Project

As part of our NC Enterprise project  our group organised a raffle for a Pet Photography Phtoto-shoot with the aim of raising funds for Cats Protection.  Our raffle was pulled tonight at the opening of our classes first portrait exhibition!!

Prizes were well distributed and winners will be contacted asap.  

Most importantly we sold 115 tickets so have raised over £200 for Cats Protection.  Big thanks to everyone with their help in buying and selling tickets.  We really appreciate it!

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Colour Management

Excellent lesson in class learning about colour management and how it manifests in the camera, monitor and in print.  Thanks Suzanne

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Old Fashioned Photography

Gorgeous day last weekend in the East Neuk of Fife. Old fashioned photography. St Monan’s Harbour.

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NC Portrait Photography Exhibition

Proud to be part of our first exhibition on Portraits and have the opportunity to display my Geisha shot.  Great images from everyone and tremendous team effort in pulling it all together!

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An Egg a Day -  The Life of a Battery Hen

A Life of Misery  - then sold for a £1 for Slaughter 

https://vimeo.com/337278022

An Egg A Day

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Some stunning images here ..British Institute of Professional Photography - Student Awards 2019

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The Life of a Battery Hen

One more reportage project - early images.  Really moved by the sad life of the battery hen - who after living in conditions so depressing and cramped is sent for slaughter, at just 72 weeks as she is no longer able to lay as many eggs as the next younger batch of hens replacing her.  A hen will live to 8 years in kind conditions and still lay eegs.  Also touched by the great work of Wing and a Prayer Hen Rescue and many of the other charities that  do fantastic work to re-home these Lovley creatures

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Wet Plate Photography

Really please with my images from the course  David Gillanders at Street Level Photoworks  learning how to make collodion prints.  Lovley to depart from the world of digital and explore these alternative processes

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Scapafest

Very early images from Scpafest a yoga and adventure festival  bring together the most inspiring global experts in mind-body health, outdoor education and environmental action to deliver immersive practical and educational sessions to families and individual 

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Developing Photography & Art

El Lissitzkywas a Russian born artist, designer, typographer, photographer and architect who designed many exhibitions and propaganda for the Soviet Union in the early 20th century. His development of the ideas behind the Supermatist art movement were very influential in the development of the Bauhaus and the Constructivist art movements. His stylistic characteristics and experimentation with production techniques developed in the 1920s and 30s have been an influence on graphic designers since.

From 1922 to 1925, Lissitzky experimented with photograph collage and photograms.  While working on photograms, Lissitzky experimented with photomontage as well. He was able to achieve vibrant compositions using several printing exposures in order to utilize the effects of transparency. These experiments help him in many advertisements he produced starting from 1924 until 1925.

László Moholy-Nagyis arguably one of the greatest influences on post-war art education in the United States. A modernist and a restless experimentalist from the outset, the Hungarian-born artist was shaped by Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, and debates about photography. When Walter Gropius invited him to teach at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany, he took over the school's crucial preliminary course, and gave it a more practical, experimental, and technological bent. He later delved into various fields, from commercial design to theater set design, and also made films and worked as a magazine art director. But his greatest legacy was the version of Bauhaus teaching he brought to the United States, where he established the highly influential Institute of Design in Chicago.

Artists used to be dependent on the tools of perspective drawing, but with the advent of the camera they had to learn to see again. They had to renounce the classical training of previous centuries, which encouraged them to think about the history of art and to reproduce old formulas and experiment with vision, thus stretching human capacity to new tasks.

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer.He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design.  

Rodchenko was one of the most versatile artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter andgraphic designer  before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or down below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

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Wet Collodian

Fantastic workshop with avid Gillanders at Street Level learning the art of wet collodian photography invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851.

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Michael Wolf

Sadly died this week at age 64.

Michael Wolf is known for capturing the hyper-density of the city of Hong Kong in his large-scale photographs of its high-rise architecture. In his series Tokyo Compression, Wolf centres on the subsurface crush of the Tokyo subway, in which thousands of commuters make their daily journeys between work and home. Photographing individuals pressed against the windows of the crowded trains during the morning rush hour, Wolf’s images are a disquieting metaphor for the conditions of city-dwellers in today’s dense urban centres.

The images for Tokyo Compression were photographed at Shimo-Kitazawa station in Tokyo over a four-year period. Over time, Wolf has engaged with the evocative potential of abstraction, cropping and reframing his images to hone in more closely on his subjects. With skin pressed against the windows, the faces of the commuters are often partially obscured, blurred from view by condensation on the glass, or shielded intentionally from others by surgical masks. Closed eyes and earphones reflect an internalised retreat from the discomfort and overcrowding, as though suspending time until the journey is over, while some passengers squeeze their eyes tightly shut as a gesture of resistance to being photographed. On other occasions, they meet Wolf’s gaze, as in the example of Tokyo Compression #18 where one closed eye creates the mirror-image of the artist, training his vision through the viewfinder. On 25 March  2013, the Odakyu subway line was relocated, thus bringing this series to a conclusion.

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Climate Justice

Some early prep work practicing for reportage/story telling

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Jim Goldberg

Jim Goldberg is an American artist and photographer whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations.  He has been exhibiting for over 30 years and his innovative use of image and text make him a landmark photographer of our times.

He began to explore experimental storytelling and the potentials of combining image and text with Rich and Poor (1977-85), where he juxtaposed the residents of welfare hotel rooms with the upper class and their elegantly furnished homes to investigate the nature of American myths about class, power, and happiness.

In Raised by Wolves (1985-95), he worked closely with and documented runaway teenagers in San Francisco and Los Angeles to create a book and exhibition that combined original photographs, text, home movie stills, snapshots, drawings, diary entries as well as single and multi-channel video, sculpture, found objects, light boxes and other 3-D elements.

His book, Open See (2003-2010), tells the story of refugees, immigrants, and trafficked individuals journeying from their countries of origin to their new homes in Europe. Open See remains within Goldberg’s multi-faceted and multimedia practice by using diverse formats to create a thickly interwoven, expressionistic narrative from many points of view.

In project, Candy (2012-2015), layers archival materials, Super 8 film stills, and text from his childhood in New Haven with new photographs of its urban landscape and residents. The result is a twisting, multi-layered exploration of American notions of aspiration and betrayal.

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Daniel Beltra

Born in Madrid, Spain, Daniel Beltrá is a photographer based in Seattle, Washington. His passion for conservation is evident in images of our environment that are evocatively poignant. The most striking large-scale photographs by Beltrá are images shot from the air. This perspective gives the viewer a wider context to the beauty and destruction he witnesses, as well as revealing a delicate sense of scale. After two months of photographing the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill,  May 2010) he produced many visually arresting images of the man-made disaster. .

It includes 27 of his award-winning aerial photographs that have gone on show around the world, and an essay by Barbara Bloemink that gives context to Spill as an artistic response to the environment and nature.

It was one of the world's most destructive environmental disasters in human history: in April 2010 an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig killed 11 men and sent 210m gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a black tide covering 68,000 square miles of ocean and spreading along 16,000 miles of coastline. Spill is the first book from photographer.

I find inspiration in the beauty and complexity of nature. The fragility of our ecosystems is a continuous thread throughout my work. My photographs show the vast scale of transformation our world is under from human-made stresses.

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Kyoto Graphie

Fantastic range of images over a number of venues  displaying in April/May in Kyoto.  Managed to get to se a few and amongst the most memorable were those of Albert Watson and Weronika Gesicka who’s collection of images took 1950′s American family photos and applied a seamless photomerge to manipulate  and add an aspects that was hidden in the original image! - a very clever collection