Andrea Norrington, Author at The Open College of the Arts

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Andrea Norrington

From here to there

Posted: 21/05/16 09:43 | 2 Comments

In March I went to a talk by Alec Soth at The Photography Show in Birmingham. Having visited his exhibition Gathered Leaves at the Science Museum, I was keen to hear him talk about his work process as I am currently very interested in photographers working processes on a project.
Soth spoke about his work in an open and direct way. It is clear that he has been asked questions about how he started many times and had a well prepared format to answer each section. The talk was titled ‘From here to there’, this process is fundamental to his work as he explained how one picture may lead to the next.

How you see it?

Posted: 12/05/16 09:23 | 4 Comments

I have just finished speaking to a student as part of a telephone tutorial. He is at that mid point in a project and the conversation was about taking the next steps forward. There were a few points that he made in his discussion that made me confident that he had achieved clarity and a sense of direction on the project that he was working on. “It is how I see it” was his comment to me. This was a definite statement, not a proposition, not a question. “It is how I see it” – here was a moment of realisation at the point he is it currently at.

The Best Camera…

camera equipment cameras Photography

Posted: 03/05/16 09:38 | 20 Comments

I dread to think how many words have been written on camera and associated equipment reviews. The photography industry is constantly reworking camera and lens models. It feels as if the pressure is always on to upgrade and add more and more pixels. The magazine and online journals seem to profligate this message (of course fueled by the advertising revenue from said equipment companies). It is easy to get caught in a spiral of ‘if only I had this lens my images would be better’.

Nick Turpin

Posted: 14/03/16 09:55 | 15 Comments

In this blog post I wanted to explore how photographers work on a project. As part of the OCA courses, the assignments give students the opportunity to present a series of images in response to a brief. The brief will provide some guidance on the work to be produced, but ultimately the student is encouraged to develop a series of images to be viewed together.

Powder

Posted: 23/07/15 10:13 | 9 Comments

On Tuesday night I was able to have a sneak preview of this exhibition by OCA Photography student Sarah Deane.

No Photos Allowed

Posted: 10/12/14 11:01 | 25 Comments

You may have read or at the very least be aware of the comments surrounding the recent article by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian on titled ’ Flat, soulless and stupid: why photographs don’t work in art galleries’…

Edwin Smith

Posted: 29/10/14 10:32 | 3 Comments

Smith is possibly one of our most underrated photographers. He is sidelined in the history timeline of British photography and has often been labeled as just an architectural photographer. RIBA are in fact the custodians of 60,000 of Smith’s images and the exhibition is showcasing a varied selection that shows Edwin Smith was much more than a photographer of architecture.

Skinningrove

Posted: 14/08/14 01:13 | 5 Comments

In this short film directed by Michael Almereyda, Killip presents a group of mostly unpublished photographs from the 1980s, taken in and around the village of Skinningrove, in North Yorkshire. Andrea discusses.

Plan + Research + Reshoot

Posted: 19/06/14 10:59 | 14 Comments

Andrea on the difficult issue of how to ‘get better’ at what you do.

If your memory is not good enough…

Posted: 13/01/14 12:45 | 7 Comments

I read with interest Eva Wiseman’s article in The Observer on Sunday 22 December 2013 titled “Our addiction to photographing our lives”. There has been a long fascination with photography and its function in relation to memory. In my academic writing I have investigated both the process of remembering and that of forgetting. This article […]