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The learning log for my BA(Hons) degree course in Photography with the Open College of Arts
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Expressing Your Vision
Assignments
Assignment 1 – ‘Square Mile’
Assignment 1 – Post Tutor Feedback
Assignment 2 – Collecting
Assignment 2 – Post Tutor Feedback
Assignment 3 – The (in)decisive moment
Assignment 3 – Post Tutor Feedback and Re-work
Assignment 4: The Languages of Light
Assignment 4 – Post Tutor Feedback
Assignment 5: Photography is Simple
Assignment 5 – Post-tutor feedback
Re-working Assignment 5
EYV Coursework
Part 1
Exercise 1.1 – The Instrument
Exercise 1.2 – Point
1) Project 3 – Surface and Depth
Exercise 1.3 – Line
Exercise 1.4 – Frame
Part 2
Exercise 2.1 – Zoom
Exercise 2.2 – Viewpoint
Exercise 2.3 – Focus
Exercise 2.4 – Woodpecker
Part 3
3) Project 1 – The Frozen Moment
Exercise 3.1: Freeze
3) Project 2 – A Durational Space
Exercise 3.2: Trace
3) Project 3 – ‘What Matters is to Look’
Exercise 3.3 – What Matters is to Look
Part 4
4) Project 1 – ‘Layered, complex and mysterious’
Exercise 4.1: Daylight
Exercise 4.2: Artificial Light
Exercise 4.3: Egg or Stone
4) Project 2: The Beauty of Artificial Light
Exercise 4.4: Personal Voice
Part 5
5) Project 1 – The Distance Between Us
Exercise 5.1: The Distance Between Us
Exercise 5.2: Homage
Exercise 5.2 (Part 2) Some Examples of Homage
5) Project 2 – Improbable Images
Exercise 5.3: Looking at Photography
Learning Log
Always Meet Your Heroes
Surface and Depth Revisited
In thinking about The (in)Decisive Moment
A Tale of Three Photographers
The Process of Selection
The Creativity of Children
Light Meters
Approaching Printing
Looking at Contemporary Portrait Artists
Exercise 5.2 (Part 2) Some Examples of Homage
‘Die’ by Faith Ringgold – A Visit to MoMA
Reflecting on Expressing Your Vision
Practicing What I Have Learned
Context and Narrative
Assignments
Assignment 1: Two sides of the story
Assignment 2: Narrative
Preparing for Assignment 2
Assignment 3: Self Portraiture
Assignment 3 Diary
Preparing for Assignment 3
Reflecting on Assignment 3 Feedback
Assignment 4 – A picture tells a thousand words
Preparation and Research for Assignment 4
Post Assignment 4 Feedback
Assignment 5: Making it up
Assignment 5: Viewer Responses
Preparing for Assignment 5
Post Assignment 5 Feedback
C&N Coursework
Part 1
Pre-work Exercises 1, 2 and 3
Exercise 1: The impact of Citizen Journalism
Documentary and Social Reform
Case Study 1: Dzanghal – Gideon Mendel
Project 2: Photojournalism
Aftermath and Aesthetics
Project 3 – Reportage
Case Study 2: Imperial Courts – Dana Lixenberg
Exercise 2: Street Photography
Project 4: The Gallery Wall – Documentary as Art
Exercise 3: Public Order
Project 5: The Manipulated Image
Exercise 4: Digital Manipulation
Exercise 5: Critical Analysis
Part 2
Project 1: Telling a Story
Exercise 2.1: The Dad Project
Project 2: Image and Text
2) Exercise 2: Newspaper Analysis
2) Project 3 – Photographing the Unseen
Exercise 3: Poetry Interpretation
Part 3
3) Project 1 – Autobiographical self-portraiture
3) Exercise 1: Brotherus Research and Analysis
3) Project 2: Masquerades
3) Exercise 2: Self-Representation
3) Project 3: Self-absented Portraiture
3) Exercise 3: Childhood Memories
3) Exercise 4: Shafran Critique
Part 4
Part 4: Exercise 1 – Erwitt Analysis
4) Project 2: Reading Pictures
Research Task: Insomnia
On Barthes – Tools for Deconstruction
4) Exercise 2: Deconstruction Task
Part 5
5) Project 1: Setting the Scene
5) Exercise 1: Martin Scorsese Critique
Research Task: Gregory Crewdson
Project 2: The Archive
5) Exercise 2: Re-situated Art
C&N Learning Log
Thinking about how to incorporate image and media
Cindy Sherman
Drawing on Documentary and Art – Influences on Photographers
Reflecting on Photography 1 – how things have changed so far
Identity and Place
I&P Coursework
Part 1
1) Project 1: Historical photographic portraiture
1) Exercise 1: Historical Portrait
1) Project 2: Typologies
1) Exercise 2: Background as Context
1) Exercise 3: Portraiture Typology
1) Project 3: Portraiture and the Archive
1) Exercise 4: Archival Intervention
Part 2
2) Exercise 1: Individual spaces
2) Project 1: The Unaware
2) Exercise 2: Covert
2) Project 2: The Aware
2) Exercise 3: Same model, different background
2) Exercise 4: Same background, different model
Part 3
3) Exercise 1: Mirrors and Windows
3) Project 1: Mirrors
3) Exercise 2: Your Personality
3) Project 2 – The Gaze
3) Exercise 3: Reflecting
3) Exercise 4: The Gaze
Part 4
4) Exercise 1: Looking at Advertisements
4) Project 1: Captions and Titles
4) Exercise 2: Reflective Day
4) Exercise 3: Storyboard
4) Exercise 4: Alternative Interpretations
4) Project 2: Memories and Speech
4) Exercise 5: Image and Text
4) Project 3: Fictional Texts
Part 5
5) Project 1: Absence and signs of life
5) Exercise 1: Still Life
5) Project 2: Places and Spaces
5) Exercise 2: Georges Perec
5) Exercise 3: Your Journey
Assignments
Assignment One: The non-familiar
Post-assignment 1 feedback
Assignment Two: Vice versa
Post Assignment 2 Feedback
Assignment Three: Mirrors or Windows
Assignment Four: Image and Text
Assignment Five: Your Inspiration
Post Assignment Five Feedback
I&P Learning Log
Initial Meeting with My Tutor
On Delaroche, Analogue and Digital
Identity – Arbus, Mapplethorpe and Evans
Research Task: Elina Brotherus
Humanae (2012 to present) by Angelica Dass
The ‘Studio’
Examining ‘Place’ in the context of Portraiture
Research Task: Rhetoric of the Image
5) Research Task: Personal Reflection
Reading Task: Something and Nothing
Research Task: Still Life
5) Research Task: Personal Reflection
Reflecting on Identity and Place
Ph2.1: Challenging Genres
Project 1
Project 1 – Exercise 1: Analysis
Project 1 – Exercise 2: Recreate
Project 2
Research Task: Terms and Definitions
Project 2: Exercise 1: Denotation and Connotation
Project 2: Exercise 2 – Comparative Analysis
Project 3
Project 3: Exercise 1 – Select a Broad Theme
Project 3: Exercise 2: Reviewing your broad themes
Project 3: Exercise 3 – Review and Update your glossary
Project 4
Project 4: Exercise 1- Looking at artistic practice & research (Part 1)
Project 4: Exercise 1- Looking at artistic practice & research (Part 2)
Assignments
Assignment 1: Understanding Genre
Assignment 2: Analysis Through Making
Assignment 3 – Mapping Territories
Assignment 4: Developing your Practice and Research
Contact
Ph2.2 Ethics and Representation
Ph2.2 EAR Learning Log
Project 1, Exercise 1: The Case of Kim Phuc
Project 1, Exercise 2: Identifying Ethical Principles
Project 1, Exercise 3: Finding Common Ground
Reading Task: Photographic Truth
Project 2: Reading Task: Relating to your “subject”
Project 2, Exercise 3: Exploring Approaches
Ph2.2 Assignments
Assignment 2: Photographing Communities
Assignment 4: Framing Your Family
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