Richard Fletcher OCA Photography Blog

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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