I was advised by my tutor to look at the work of Chrystel Lebas. Many of the projects fit nicely with the kind of mood and visual strategy that I was hoping to achieve in assignment two. The images below are from a project titled "Natural History". The images are 'botanical' in nature but with …
Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World’s Edge
(Lacma.org, 2020) “I thought maybe I could learn something by standing on the continental edges of the source of Western civilization and trying to imagine, with my back to the land, what happened when the carriers of the culture went over the edge of the map,” he told me. Another time, he said, “Emptiness and …
Dan Holdsworth: Blackout
(Danholdsworth.com, 2020) 'Blackout' (2011) is a series of images by Dan Holdsworth taken of Icelands mountainous region which is home to it's receding glaciers. The images are presented in negative reminiscent of a radiograph which creates a sense of the scientific and investigative. The white mountains against the deep black 'nothingness' sky have an eerie …
What is critical analysis?
In my naivity and possibly an element of laziness, I thought a photography degree would be a lot more 'messing about' taking photographs. The feedback I've had over the course units have referred to critical thinking and critical analysis. What I've come to realise is that I don't really know what that means. I've written …
Landscape, Place and Environment 