This week, or over the Assessment Period, it is important to reflect on the myriad topics discussed, and any questions that have been raised for you in relation to your practice, and photography more broadly.  - What have you found most stimulating? - What topics, concepts or ideas have you found more challenging? - How … Continue reading Week 12: Thinking Ahead

I spent this week completing and handing in my assignment and on joining the forum discussion. This week's topic was to discuss your practice in relation to established critical perspectives. Further, to reflect on the relevance of theory on your practice and what are the most important aspects of communicating and contextualizing photography. I had … Continue reading Week 11 – Critical perspective

This was a very interesting week that touched on the definition and importance of critical theory and its relevance to practice. Francis Hodgson proposes images should have criteria by which we can evaluate them for quality. The term 'mattering' is introduced and that people will devote attention to an image that has this quality, anything … Continue reading Week 10 – Criticality

I have spent this week researching for my project proposal and in particular how to structure and create a proposal. Clearly this is a critical skill for grant funding, a badly prepared proposal will not lead to funding and only be a disappointment after several rebuttals. A few key attributes came to the top of … Continue reading Week 9 – Audience

Week 8 has largely been spent working on my online portfolio to prepare for the upcoming work in progress assignment. Early in the week was the course leader's discussion on the next two assignments, which was very useful. A lot of questions on changing course during the course with respect to ongoing project work. Wednesday … Continue reading Weeks 8 – Contexts

Chance and serendipity in photography, and when our mistakes turn out better than expected. This week's forum challenged everyone to post an image they considered at the time a faux pas and to briefly explain why it was considered a good shot and what rules had been broken. I really liked this quote from Sontag, … Continue reading Weeks 6 & 7: Methods & Strategies

A busy but rewarding week! The theme was responsibilities which encompassed the role of the photographer in creating an image and their ethical considerations. The UKIP image that was used for the forum discussion generated quite a lot of interesting responses, not being a professional photographer these were very insightful, as was the discussion on … Continue reading Week 5: Responsibilities

This has been a really busy week and a struggle to keep up. I reviewed several example oral presentations and realize this is going to need a lot of preparation. I made a start on mine which is due November 9th. I hope that with peer review I can get it up to speed and … Continue reading Week 4 – Collaboration