The Cruel Radiance

The Cruel Radiance, 2012, Susie Linfield, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0-226-48251-4. This is a very interesting book and I found it to be a good read. Linfield writes in defence of photography against what she describes as a popular and institutional attack on the medium by critics and even other photographers. She

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 be

Assignment 1 – Written Feedback

Above is attached a WordDoc for my Tutor’s written feedback for my first assignment. Overall Comments A successful piece of work based on good preparation that meets the brief. Feedback on assignment Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills, Quality of Outcome, Demonstration of Creativity Notes on, and in addition to, video tutorial [You need to

My Tutor’s assessment – Assignment 1

The theme of my assignment was environmental portraits the challenge was a COVID pandemic that naturally made finding willing subjects difficult, I therefore chose to use my wife as subject and our home as the environment. As subject matter I have attempted to illustrate different aspects of my wife’s character each has its own identity.

Assignment 1 – Environmental Portraits, ‘My Other-half’

Assignment 1 – My Other-half “Identity comes from both the observer and the observed.” – Shaun Mullins. In this project, I wanted to create environmental portraits that in some way express the different sub-identities that make up the overall character of a person.  I believe that our identity / character is not defined by one

Katy Grannan

Katy Grannan, born 1969. An American photographer and film maker, he prefers to photograph strangers by placing adverts in newspapers asking for “people for portraits” Our Little Secret (2005) the volunteers sometimes posed nude and often chose to pose in vacant lots or rooms with low ceilings. In a similar project, Dream America, (2000) Grannan