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Formative Feedback for Assignment 3

Formative feedback Student name        Shaun Mullins Student number                 512659 Course/Unit          Self and Other Assignment number          3 Type of tutorial  Audio-Visual     Overall Comments A useful start based on decent preparatory research. Feedback on assignment Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills, Quality of Outcome, Demonstration of Creativity Notes on, and in addition to,Continue reading “Formative Feedback for Assignment 3”

Formative Feedback for Assignment 4

Formative feedback Student name        Shaun Mullins Student number                 512659 Course/Unit          Self and Other Assignment number          4 Type of tutorial  Audio-Visual     Overall Comments A useful attempt to wrestle with the subjectivity of the photograph. A well referenced essay. Assignment 2 and 4 Assessment potential I understand your aim is to go forContinue reading “Formative Feedback for Assignment 4”

Formative Feedback for Assignment 2

Formative feedback Student name        Shaun Mullins Student number                 512659 Course/Unit          Self and Other Assignment number          2 Type of tutorial  Audio-Visual     Overall Comments An assignment that meets the brief, engages with references and is based on useful research. Feedback on assignment Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills, Quality of Outcome, Demonstration ofContinue reading “Formative Feedback for Assignment 2”

Final Project (Assignment 6) Tutor’s Formative Feedback

Formative feedback Student name        Shaun Mullins Student number                 512659 Course/Unit          Self and Other Assignment number          6 Type of tutorial  Audio-Visual     Overall Comments An interesting interactive project that brings together your research and interests. A satisfying conclusion to the module. Feedback on assignment Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills, Quality of Outcome,Continue reading “Final Project (Assignment 6) Tutor’s Formative Feedback”

Critical reflection

For my final project I wanted to explore the idea of the politics of self. My idea was to employ masks to act as a form of metaphor for the ‘front’ that we put up, like a mask, to both disguise and project our identity to others. My original idea was to provide my subjectsContinue reading “Critical reflection”

Shizuka Yokomizo – Stranger

Shizuka Yokomizo’ project, Stranger, 1998 -2000, consisted of Yokomizo sending anonymous letters to her subjects asking them to stand in front of their from windows at an appointed time, and she would then spend a couple of minutes photographing them through their window from the street. Shizuka Yokomizo, Stranger, 1998 -2000. Dear Stranger, I amContinue reading “Shizuka Yokomizo – Stranger”

Ernest Wilhelm “Wim” Wenders

“Wim” Wenders is a German filmmaker, author, playwrite and photographer. From the 1970’s to the 1980’s Wenders took over 12000 Polaroid photographs, including portraits of film stars that he worked with, landscapes and still lifes. Most of the pictures he gave away but what he kept he stored in cigar boxes that proved to beContinue reading “Ernest Wilhelm “Wim” Wenders”

Remembrance, The child I never was, by Annette Kuhn

Remembrance, The child I never was, (1991) by Annette Kuhn from The Photography Reader, edited by Liz Wells, (2003) Routledge, Abingdon. Annette Kuhn as a child, by Harry Kuhn, circa, early 1950’s, exact date unknown. Kuhn uses a photograph taken of herself as a child as the theme to her story or as she saysContinue reading “Remembrance, The child I never was, by Annette Kuhn”

Reflection point – seeing ourselves through technology

As Jill Walker Rettberg in her book​ ​Seeing Ourselves Through Technology​ says, ‘[p]erhaps the reason we feel the need to take another, and another selfie, is in part that we, as the surrealists wrote in 1928, never seem able to create a photo that will ‘fully correspond to what you want to see in yourself’’’ (Walker Rettberg,Continue reading “Reflection point – seeing ourselves through technology”

Zed Nelson

Zed Nelson, born 1965, film director and photographer, famous for his celebrity portraits and his for the gallery projects. Zed Nelson David Tennant, b. 1971. Actor 2011 © Zed Nelson. Paul Weller, singer. Photographed at his recording studio in Kent. (date unknown) by Zed Nelson. “It’s my constitutional right to own a gun and protect my family.”Continue reading “Zed Nelson”