In this post I'm going to talk to you about one of the inspirations for my final work. Now I don't think I'll be able to create anything quite as magnificent as what Kirsty Mitchell has created but one can only hope.
Earlier this week we had a talk by Amak Mahmoodian. So today I'm going to talk to you about one of her projects; Shenasnameh. Before I do, I'm going to give you a little bit of background information. Amak was born in Shiraz, Iran just after the Islamic revolution and amid the war between Iran and Iraq. The war and...
When Francis first started out he felt lost. He felt like someone who had a camera, who was always snapping but didn't really know what they were doing. Honestly I can relate to this. Even now, so close to having my degree, I still feel this sense of being lost, a sort of wondering, with no actual idea of what I'm doing....
"When I was in... your position... I was quite disillusioned with the idea of photography or of me being able to make it as a photographer. The notion of anyone being interested in my work or my vision of the world and the narratives I was trying to tell, it just didn't seem like it was feasible."
Something really exciting happened over the course of this past week. My good friend Jo notified me about a magazine who wanted women to comment on Body Dysmophic Disorder, how it's effected them and their lives, how they're dealing with it. Now it's not something I myself have been diagnosed with as of yet, I explain in the article that...
Today we had a talk from Charlotte Jansen and I was enthralled with everything that she said. Charlotte is the author of Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the age of the female gaze. Her book looks at female photographers who used the female gaze to redefine the fields of fashion, art, advertising and photojournalism, making a profound...
Sarah is a fine art, travel , and aerial photographer based in Alaska. What she tries to portray in her images is the awe she finds in the beauty of the natural world. Sarah originally worked in a hospital and stumbled upon photography as a way to release the stress of her demanding job. This led her to eventually selling...
Agnieszka, also known as A.M. Lorek, is a Polish photographer, stylist, makeup artist, musician, artist, and fashion designer. She has an incredible attention to detail which comes across in her images, you can guarantee that everything included is deliberate. Her images are a gateway into a fantasy world full of nymphs and princesses and elves and...
This semester we have been encouraged to experiment. I've always seen bath shoots- mainly on pinterest- and been a little too afraid to try them out. But I have been wanting more and more to push my practise and challenge myself to move further and further out of my comfort zone. I decided to dive right in (pun intended). I...
Part of our course includes having talks by prominent photographers and practitioners that are thriving in their respective fields. One of the first talks we had was by the very talented Silvana Trevale. She started off by showing us a lot of her earlier work as she felt that it was important to always be reflecting on work that we've...