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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. In the process of working on the new Photography Level 3 professional practice module, I contacted the Guardian and Observer’s correspondent on photography, Sean O’Hagan, to ask him about how came to make a living out […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Perhaps the title of this blog post is a little sensational (got to do what you can to get people’s attention these days, though), but it was an interesting starting point for Colin Archibald’s Photography 3: […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. We shall be running a study visit to Cardiff’s first photography festival on Friday 31st May. The Diffusion festival will be showcasing some new work as well as exhibiting some acclaimed recent work, such as Edgar […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. As the ink dries on the new Photography Level 2 Landscape course, ready to be stuffed into envelopes for the first enrolled students, I thought this might be a good time to briefly share my experiences […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Even with all the will in the world, getting started on anything major is easy to put off. No more clearly has this been illustrated than by Oswald “Ozzie” Henderson, who this week, submitted his first […]
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Revisiting the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock in Wiltshire last week, I was reminded of how much for granted we take the crisp, clear, defined photographic print. The earlier experiments by Fox Talbot and his contemporaries rendered pictures that were much less clear, and perhaps even difficult to identify today as ‘photographic images’. Never-the-less, when […]
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On Friday 7th December there will be a study visit to Lacock Abbey, the museum, current exhibition The Theatre of Insects by Jo Whaley, followed by a seminar in the afternoon. Lacock Abbey was the home of William Henry Fox Talbot, and was where he developed the Calotype contact-printing process in the 1830s, which is […]
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The high costs of studying anything these days is well documented, and it is no secret that Photography has always been one of the most expensive disciplines to commit to. Not only are there the general costs of studying (travel, textbooks, flapjacks and cups of coffee) but the equipment requirements are ever expanding, and although […]
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The OCA will be making a study visit at Ffotogallery in Penarth on Saturday 18th August to look at the work of acclaimed British documentary photographer, Daniel Meadows. In the early 1970s Daniel Meadows embarked on a journey to create a social snapshot of Britain, breaking with photography tradition and infusing the medium with new […]
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Not only was last Friday’s trip to Ffotogallery in Cardiff the OCA’s first photography study visit in Wales, but it was also a different take on our regular outings, by combining a visit to an exhibition with a group tutorial. Voices of the South Atlantic, which is a partnership between Ffotogallery, Photofusion and Autograph ABP, […]
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