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I recently mentioned to Textiles Curriculum Leader Sarah Taylor that we needed to see more textiles student work on WeAreOCA. ‘Penni Redding!’ she replied ‘I have just seen some of her work. Get hold of it and put it on the blog.’ So here we are and the minute I opened the box from Penni, […]
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Around this time of year the papers tend to be filled with lists of the ten best films, the thirty best TV shows… Not to be outdone I asked a few photography tutors what had caught their attention. Not a list. Certainly no rankings…
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A slide show from level 3 photography student Keith Greenough to liven up a dark November day. Entitled Urban Artists Version 2 Keith says: ‘The images focus on the gaze of the artist and highlight their level of absorption in their work. All the artists had agreed that I could make a portrait of them. […]
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A very pleasant surprise this week was to receive a copy of Pete Davies’ latest book ‘Three Pairs of Dead Mans Pants’. The book comprises three of Pete’s recent projects, one of which is loosely based around life as observed by Pete in Plymouth. The images are coupled with overheard conversations from his local Post […]
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Money may not grow on trees, but funding options for new students wishing to pursue their studies with the OCA are more generous than many people seem to think. We aim to give full information on our website here, but from calls we receive, it is clear that the national Governments have not yet got […]
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“I called the image Go Away Closer. The words formed in my mind the moment I made the photograph. Go Away Closer is what happens between people: I can’t live with you, I can’t live without you. It could be another way of describing love. It’s also what happens with photography – you try desperately […]
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One of the things that you learn very rapidly when you join the OCA staff is that there is no such thing as a ‘typical OCA student’ – students come a huge variety of backgrounds and with widely different levels of prior experience and different expectations of what studying with the OCA can bring to […]
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