Tag: Tutorials

Final Major Project – 1:2:1 Tutorial with Wendy McMurdo – 9th April 2019

Summary:I brought my FMP using InDesign as I wasn’t sure of some elements

What I need to do:

  • DON’T PANIC!!!
  • Just select some of my comments and link the rest in a WordPress post.
  • Expand on my diary entries
  • Expand more on how I got to this point.
  • Bring more of what is inside me.

Whats next:

Hand in my documents

Final Major Project – 1:2:1 Tutorial with Wendy McMurdo – 26th March 2019

Summary: We went over the first public outcome of my final major project we also went back over my artist statement.

What I need to do:

  • I need to re-emphasise the benefits of the walk on my work.
  • I also need to mention some of the Ethics that are important to this type of work.
  • Contact some professionals.
  • Make it clearer that this is my personal journey
  • Use links rather than actual video in my work.

Research to Follow up:

Next Tutorial: April 5th 2019

Final Major Project – 1:2:1 Tutorial with Wendy McMurdo – 12th February 2019

Summary:

I need to consider a voice over and whether I feel his would be successful if I brought it into my work.

Have a look as some of the CRJ’s from North Utshire.

Confirmation that the black and white images are the ones to go with.

What I need to do:

Research Bobby Baker

Sophie Calle – Take Care of Yourself and The First Time – on websire FlashArt online

Links to my website – These can be linked into the FMP document.

CRoP – Research people who use the walk particularly in reference to photography. Look at the stigmatisation of mental health

Write 300 words of what my project is about and keep reviewing this.

Research:

  • Fay Godwin
  • Gem Southern
  • Jesse Alexander – Place and Perspective
  • Crystal le Bas
  • Nan Golding
  • Sophie Calle

Final Major Project – 1:2:1 Tutorial with Wendy McMurdo – 29th January 2019

Summary:

  • Discussed the gallery meeting that I had yesterday and made a provisional booking for.
  • We discussed that a pop up event might be enough – or just the launch event.
  • Instead of doing a live talk – I could have one that is recorded.
  • Some of my close up work is not as strong as the seascapes however once I explained why these images are important I have chosen to re shoot them.
  • I need to have a think about how explicitly I want to talk about my personal issues.
  • My work needs to have beginning and ends/ ebbs and flows.

What I need to do with my work:

  • Get in touch with Digital Lab
  • Think about the type of presentation that I would like to use. My work is almost diaristic I should perhaps present it in this way.
  • Would my work be successful in a website blog type of presentation.
  • I should tell my story

Research to follow up:

  • Pre Raphaelite Art – Melancholic
  • Hamish Boulton, Simon Roberts
  • Watch Francis Alys – Ice Block in Mexico Xity
  • Bobby Baker – Mental Illness and Me

Next Tutorial: Tuesday 12th February

Final Major Project – 1:2:1 Tutorial with Wendy McMurdo – 22nd January 2019

Summary:

I presented my draft water presentation

Although I have decided not to pursue my Alzheimer’s project it is felt that I should still clearly document it in my CRJ.

What I need to do with my Work:

Contextualisation:

  • How people see water in lots of different ways
  • bodies of water metaphor
  • I need to consider images and text
  • Use Creativity – What do I want to say – Titles
  • Exploration of my own issues is the creativity to explore aspects of the self.
  • Think about the space to just be through photography.
  • For the Falmouth F2F event, get some good prints to show and curate with Wendy

Research to Follow up:

  • Watch Simon Roberts video – vantage points
  • The Pond Moonlight – Edward Steichen
  • Andreas Gursky – River Rhine
  • Jo Spence – Photo-therapy Work – Using Self portraiture
  • Susan Derges – River Taw
  • Hiroshi Sugimoto – Seascapes
  • Roni Horn – Another Water ( Look at the Tate, This project is loaded with important information for me) Water, Bridges, Suicide.
  • Ian McEwan and Robert McFarlane – Writing about water, landscapes and walking
  • Look at the CRJ of previous students to fully understand the presentation of the final outcome
  • Research Workshops looking at collaborative practice.

Next Tutorial: 29th January

Final Major Project – 1:2:1 Tutorial with Wendy McMurdo – 27th November 2018

Summary

After the cancellation of my exhibition space – I shouldn’t panic I still have time!

I shared the images I had taken as part of the task set to me.

We discussed my reluctance over sharing my images of the family archive.

What I need to do with my work:

If I want to continue with Alzheimer’s:

  • I could ask if the Editorial Team could do a piece
  • I already have links to the Events Team
  • This will help me with my links to collaboration.

If I decide to go with a broader mental health issues:

  • I could hold a workshop
  • If I decide to hold a workshop I must have images/documentation to show the experience
  • Development of the mindfulness/contemplative photography skills I have been practising in my personal photography work.

A workshop feels like a really achievable option. It will achieve the SMART objectives i can measure the success against.

Research to follow up:

Whitechapel Gallery – Gillian Wearing – the work she did on her Grandmother

Dafnor Talmor – How she carries out workshops – Perhaps a case study here.

Natasha Carruna – Workshop examples

Jo Spence – Phototherapy

http://www.hospital-rooms.com

Daniel Meadows – look him up on YouTube – Specialises in digital storytelling.

Next Tutorial: 22nd January 2019

Final Major Project – 1:2:1 Tutorial with Wendy McMurdo – 13th November 2018

Summary:

I need to get up to date.

With my Alzheimer’s work I should have the goal of aiming at the Bob & Diane Fund Competition next year. (I’ve just missed the deadline for this year)

Feedback for the new images that I have produced:

  • Stolen Moments The Memories Dementia Erased – November 2018
  • Grey Street Silhouette – November 2018
  • The less manipulation the better
  • The Silhouette is just an illustration
    • Recreating my memories with the silhouette within it could be too much of a challenge.
  • I should be using the archive that I already have – this being the family album.

What I need to do with my work – 

For the next tutorial – 

  • Photograph in-Situ 12 rephotographs
  • Try new techniques either holding the image or inserting via photoshop.
  • They need to be high quality
  • Create a PDF from here.

Research to follow up:

  • Nicky Bird – nickybird.com
    • Family Ties Network
    • Travelling the Archive images.
    • Test > Projection > Retake
  • Rosy Martin
  • Family Photography
    • This is important – Visual Metaphors
    • Shooting more and collecting more
  • Research the Family Photo Album
  • Either Family – Vernacular Photography
  • Collecting Letters and Cards

Next Tutorial: Tuesday 27th November 2018

Final Major Project – 1:2:1 Tutorial with Wendy McMurdo – 31st October 2018

Summary:

FMPP Feedback – 

  • My FMPP was illustrated with a good range of appropriate references.
  • I need to consider how DNA could be visualised/recorded/depicted. How I could harvest my own DNA.
  • Am I incorporating my DNA with my own archival imagery
  • The historical past mentioned in my FMPP is interesting.
  • Perhaps think about working on Typologies.

What I need to do with my work – 

My work is fragmented – I must do more research.

What is my work about? Is it DNA, Identity, Uniqueness (Does this link to ethnicity or is this unlinked?

Social Context / Political Context.

Revealing something hidden

Memory ( this is a major area for my research)

Find my links 

  • Family
  • Memory
  • Dementia Research – Alzheimer’s Society.

Research to follow up:

Look at the Centre for Life – DNA discoveries

Hew Locke – Monuments

Stephen Gill – Best Before End

Mark Quinn – Blood Cubes, DNA, Family Portrait – this could be very important to my current path.

Next Tutorial: 13th November 2018

Final Major Project: Introductory Meeting with Wendy McMurdo 21st August 2018

Summary:

This was my first meeting with Wendy to go over what I have done in the course previously and also where I see my work going or the course of the Final Major Project module.

We discussed the last module which was focused on Rebirth – and how I watched pieces of fruit and then using macro photography to show the changes from one form to another. Transformation.

What I need to do with my work:

I really need to figure out what it is that interests me, what is the direction that I want to take.

Do I really want to set along the same path of macro, and inanimate objects or pieces of fruit.

What do I really want my final piece of work to be about?

Research to follow up on:

  • Sally Mann – Rotting Bodies – How bodies decompose, body farms, humanist burials.
  • Sam Taylor-Wood – Revisit her work regarding breast cancer
  • Susan Sontag – on Illness
  • Stephen Gill – Revisit his work with Energy Drinks, he is someone to really look into – How rotting things transform other things, past present and future all come together, rubbish dumps.
  • Quinten Crisp – what is the point of cleaning? On top of Archival photographs
  • Memorial Photography – Victorian Times
  • Ben Burbridge – Medical Imagery – Book and Exhibition – Look at the video and also think about work with a Microscope.

Keep watch for the website coming live to find the presentations (25th Sept)