I understand we're encouraged to reflect on our learning, so here goes. I hesitated before signing up to level two. The truth is I ran out of steam at the end of Identity and place. It had been a busy year and I'd been squeezing my studies into the little fragments of time that I …
Exercise 1.5 : Visualising Assignment Six: Transitions
The most obvious location for me to photograph is the huge beautiful park that I have at the bottom of my road! I walk through it on my way to work and enjoy the changes of the seasons. My plan is to photograph one specific scene on a weekly basis with a view to this …
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Exercise 1.4 : What is a photographer?
Firstly we must put the essay by Zayas into it's historical context. Photography was a relatively new invention and the camera primarily a scientific instrument. What had preceded the turn of the 20th century had been an era of romanticism with impressionist and post impressionist artists. In many ways Art responded to the industrial revolution …
Exercise 1.3 : Establishing conventions
Looking at the conventions used in eighteenth and nineteenth century landscape paintings. The Hay Wain by John Constable 1821 (Artble, 2019) Firstly, I have to say that this painting (or at least a cheap copy of) used to hang above the fireplace whilst I was growing up. I had no idea what it was however …
Exercise 1.2 : Photography in the museum or in the gallery
Notes on 'Photography's Discursive Spaces: Landscape/View.' by Rosalind Krauss Krauss begins by comparing two images, the first a colloidian photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan taken in 1868. The second, a lithograph copy of the same image produced in 1878. The first image has been slightly overexposed which adds to it's mystical aesthetic whereas the lithograph has …
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I began my journey with OCA as a bit of fun, a new challenge as a means of personal development. It was only three years ago that I bought a camera and I had no previous experience of photography or the art world in general. My profession is Chinese medicine which means I work closely …
Exercise 1.1 : Preconceptions
My typically bucolic landscape! The landscape I've drawn is what I'd typically expect in the Lake district. It's what I love, I can just imagine a day walking up one of those hills. I recognise this is a typically bucolic rendition of what landscape is. This exercise could have been a seascape or I did …
Landscape, Place and Environment 