Category Archives: Project 2: Domestic Landscape

This category is used to identify posts related to project two. These fall into two areas: research and reflections and actual work and practice

Invisibility and blindness

I was reading a discussion on Flickr and someone mentioned the work of Nigel Shafran. I’d not heard of him before but much of immediately resonated with my work on Project 2. For example his Washing Up series examined the … Continue reading

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Should disability arts reflect society? Hegemony

This heading was a question posed by Colin Hambrook on the Disability Arts Website here. Colin made several points: about how the art came about from our experience of exclusion and discrimination and reflected our experience and identities (I interpreted … Continue reading

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Review and comparison – Projects 1 and 2

After sleeping on the provisional completion of Project 2 and wanted to take a little time to reflect on the process and outcome of this in relation to Project 1. However as soon as I began to consider the images … Continue reading

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Project 2: A second final set?

After some experimentation I ended up presenting this set with more of a high key than I would have originally envisaged and with the removal of two photos. I’ve done this for two reasons: Firstly I have reprocessed the images … Continue reading

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Project 2: Experimentation re processing

I’ve been experimenting a little with processing for current set of images to remove colour and focus more clearly on their form. This experimentation led to my including two images excluded from the colour set as they worked here as … Continue reading

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What is Contemporary Art? 1

Part of the exploration I want to cover in this MA is to look beyond of the history and schools of photography and be able to see that practice within a wider artistic framework. I have previously looked at various … Continue reading

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Thinking about form: Mishka Henner’s feedlots and Edmund Clark’s Guantanamo Bay

Mishka Henner’s feedlots are wonderful: why? Because they do exactly what I want to do with my work. The feedlots make a statement about the state of the food industry in parts of the USA: its impact on the landscape … Continue reading

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Project 2: A formalist set of images – work in progress

My approach with this set of photos is to offer both a visual discourse into living as someone with spinal cord injury and offer a sense of visual spectacle by creating a pleasing form. They were taken over the first … Continue reading

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Queer photography?

I received Source Magazine[1] the other day and the question posted on the front cover was “Who is the Photographer?”. The whole magazine seemed very relevant to the issues that I am exploring around how artists communicate specific values, ideas … Continue reading

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Digital Revolution: the book of the exhibition

I read the forward and five essays from the book[1] that accompanied the exhibition. Here are my notes and thoughts. The scope of the exhibition is broad – media arts, cinema, design, games, video – this hints at the journey … Continue reading

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