For the next following weeks, students are left to work through their assignments and projects by themselves. I have list of things that I need to complete, and I have a holiday in the middle of it so that’s not ideal but will encourage me to stick to my time frame and deadlines. See my … More Surfaces & Strategies- The final weeks

Week 8 Workshop Guidance This week’s topic, was guidance on how to establish a workshop, to create learning experiences for the photographer and participants. Which could expand our working methodologies within our current practice and projects. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will have time to execute a workshop, but I did have a couple of … More Surfaces & Strategies Week 8

Week 7 Publication Guidance Bit of a scary week for me, thinking about what kind of publication would best suit our works and produce a ‘dummy book’ for our work also. Unfortunately, I’m not in position to create a dummy book, I don’t have enough images of different sites to piece together this jigsaw. Instead … More Surfaces & Strategies Week 7

Week 6 Exhibition Guidance This week looked at different ideas and considerations for the right installation for your work. The activity this week encouraged us to seek an ‘alternative space’ to exhibit out work instead of the traditional white walls of gallery. I looked at Mark Kessell and his daguerreotypes in a series called Specimen … More Surfaces & Strategies Week 6

Week 5 Three ‘Surfaces’ This week saw the introduction of a group exhibition, a publication and a workshop and were asked to submit: Five key words describing your practice / project. Historic, Commemorate, Military, Landscape, Personal One sentence describing the aims of the work you might display. To commemorate and record WW1 & WW2 airfield sites … More Surfaces & Strategies Week 5

Week 4 Strategies of Freedom Interesting presentations this week, that offered quite a different perspective on photography. Looking at using different types of ‘apparatus’, using Google Earth, archive images and radar to name a few.  At this stage I am happy to continue with using my digital camera as for me, it is the most … More Surfaces & Strategies Week 4

Week 3 Strategies of Sharing   This week’s presentations focused on the collaborative ideas of photography, whether it’s a participatory, collective or cooperative method that we include in our current practice. I found the presentations quite interesting especially with crowdsourcing, these could open up your practice to endless possibilities and outcomes. I enjoyed the work … More Surfaces & Strategies Week 3

Week 2- Strategies of Mediation This week’s topic looked at remediation and appropriation on all mediums within the arts. I found it very interesting as it’s something I don’t really think about in my practice. As I’m an employed RAF photographer, everything I take comes under MOD Crown copyright and its very rare if I … More Surfaces & Strategies Week 2

Strategies of Looking My approach for this activity was to take inspiration from Ed Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations. I started with a subject matter that I physically passed daily on logistical routes through Co. Antrim. Like Ruscha I wanted it to be man-made, taken for granted, but then perhaps on closer inspection could be seen … More Surfaces & Strategies Week 1