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Watch
I watch a lot of podcast videos and videos online. I’ll list them here for now: 6/6/2012: TED talks. David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence. 5/6/2012: Google Hangout with 5 underwater...
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Introducing my bookshelf page
With the course comes a reading list (as you would expect). I’m currently slowly making my way through the list. I’ve added a bookshelf page to this blog where you can track what I’m reading now, what...
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Lunch break Walkabout
So theres a London festival of Photography on this June – who knew? I didn’t see any adverts about it anywhere. So at the end of June I see the link. Figures. Since there’s still this week left of June...
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Lunchtime walkabout
I went for a walk yesterday lunchtime across Southwark bridge. I didn’t realise how close to the Tate I am so I’ll have to pop in there more often. I walked all the way to the Golden Hinde. Who says I...
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“Out of focus” Saatchi Gallery Study Visit
I went to the Saatchi Gallery group study visit yesterday to see the Out Of Focus Exhibition. Yes, thats me in the image above captured by Mike when we went back in after the study group had left –...
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Inspiration – David Doubilet
I know this is old news (April 2012), but its new to me so I’m sharing it here. Full of lovely photos, I’ve only just read this interesting article about one of my favorite photographers – David...
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“PRIX PICTET ‘POWER'” Saatchi Gallery Study Visit
Today I went on another OCA study visit to the Saatchi Gallery. This time to see the Prix Pictet results. Unless they get back to me about a press pack I’ll be leaving my review private for my tutor....
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Prix Pictet 2012: Power – exhibition overview
Following on from my previous post on our recent OCA study visit to the Saatchi Gallery, I said then that I would keep my review of the Prix Pictet exhibition private unless I could get permission to...
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012
Not a study visit per say but I wrote a full review of the exhibition over on my other blog:...
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Writing reviews for Exhibitions
I wanted to write a quick blog post about this because I’ve been surprised by a few related things recently. Firstly how many people turn up to study visits with a camera. I’ve only been on a couple...
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What is conceptual photography?
I picked this up on twitter and really enjoyed watching these three videos, I hope you find them interesting too. source: http://www.source.ie/feature/what_is_conceptual.htmlFiled under:...
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Seduced by Art: Study Visit
On friday I went to the National Gallery to see the exhibition Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present as a study visit with the OCA. Its a great exhibition and you should go and see it. If you...
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Weaving narratives in Museums and Galleries
I watched this on thursday and have been meaning to find it online a post a link to it ( I was actually thinking quite a lot about it throughout the study visit too). Its a really interesting talk on...
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Photographer Josef Fischnaller reenacts the “Old Master Paintings”
Following on from thing about the seduced by art exhibition – this caught my eye: Austrian-born Josef Fischnaller takes pictures of scenes from old paintings with a modern twist. One of his favorite...
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Not Slacking Off…. But Not Doing Course Work
I know it must seem like I’m slacking off because I haven’t posted to this blog for a while, but I’m not. Honest. My personal blog has been humming with new photographs. In fact since I last posted...
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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013: Study Visit (15th June)
As soon as I see any study visit that I can get to in London I sign up for them. They are great. They allow students to go to exhibitions they may not have gone to and bounce ideas off each other....
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Venice Biennale 2013
I got married at the end of August and to my delight the Venice Biennale was still on during our honeymoon. Before we went I caught the culture show’s coverage of it – which is uploaded to youtube here...
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David Bailey & Bruce Weber Private View
‘Everyone is an artist’ David Bailey To celebrate the new Nokia Lumia 1020 phone, Bruce Weber & David Bailey each took one around Harlem. Mike & I went to the private view of the resulting...
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Olympus Image Space @ The Loading Bay
This weekend Olympus was doing a very special event to celebrate the launch of my camera‘s big brother the EM1. I went along to the free workshops and they were a great chance to try out some types of...
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Everybody Street… a new documentary about street photography
Really enjoyed this trailer for the forthcoming documentary on street photography See it directly on Vimeo here. “Everybody Street” illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street...
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