Assignment 5: Self Directed Project. (Work in Progress)

The Politics of Self & Other My idea for a theme is a critical look at how we regard ourselves and others from a political angle. I want to explore ideas of ‘self and other based upon a form of political ideology and to be more specific consider how portraits are viewed from the angles

Photographic Archival Intervention in the Edward Chambre-Hardman Collection.

Accessed, 24 July 2020. This is a very interesting lecture on the archive of the Liverpool photographer Edward Chambre-Hardman and how Keith W Roberts has set about cataloguing the photographic negatives and putting them together as a curator and exhibiting them. My own practice of archiving is very much in need of improving.

Reflection Point 2.1

Stuart Hall 1932 – 2014, Jamaican, cultural theorist and sociologist. lived in the UK from 1951, Known as the ‘Godfather of multiculturalism’. Professor of Sociology at the Open University between 1979 – 1997. His writing on race, gender sexuality and identity was considered groundbreaking, with a far reaching impact and descried as, “a spellbinding orator”.