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London study visit

Making sense of 150 years of street photography in London and the four shortlisted portfolios for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, all in the same day, is no mean task. And that’s what a group of dedicated OCA students set out to do on our latest study visit. London Street Photography is hosted by […]

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A Northern challenge

Ben Robinson has been the first OCA student to contribute to an exciting new joint venture between the OCA and The Big Issue in the North.  A photograph of his friend Gibson, a singer-songwriter based in Sheffield, was selected for the ‘photo of the week’ section of the northern edition of The Big Issue magazine. […]

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Right here, right now…second thoughts

Yes, I knew I would have second thoughts about some of the bodies of work on display at Format Photography Festival. I knew that no matter how shocked I initially was when I first saw the slideshow by Peter Dench, I would eventually say something positive about his work. “Don’t do it”, I said to […]

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"Bonjour le blanc"

“Good morning white man”. The standard salutation, normally said with genuine warmth, that you will receive in Burkina Faso. A reminder of where you come from, which, to all intents and purposes, might as well have been a different planet. I’m back from Burkina after working on a collaboration with Bristol-based charity Tree Aid in […]

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Photo manipulations

Just in case you are wondering, this is not a post about digital editing. The colours of the sky and the water in the above photograph may have been ever so slightly corrected, but this is most definitely not a post about digital manipulations. The opening image is a photograph I took somewhere in the […]

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Pseudo-realities

Pseudo-realities, pseudo-documentary, fictional documents, documentary fictions…I must admit I struggled to find a convincing title for this post. I’ve recently been noticing an increasing presence of this genre of photography in art galleries and photography festivals. Staged documentary photography has now a firm grip on contemporary documentary practice and a solid foothold in the art […]

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Disposable photographs

Toilet Paper is hardly an auspicious name for a photography magazine. Reflecting on the title of this new commercial and advertising magazine and the reasons why an editor would choose to imbue their publication with such clear derogatory connotations, I remembered what Eileen, a keen contributor to this blog, said to me at the Brighton […]

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Is it photography, is it video?

I’m sure you will have correctly identified the above embedded media as a video; the control strip at the bottom of the frame provides an inequivocal clue. But I bet you will also have double checked that you clicked on ‘play’ because, when you do it, apparently nothing happens. Keep watching though, and pay attention, […]

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Photography – books of the year

Gareth Dent and I set ourselves the challenge to choose a ‘book of the year’. The task proved to be more difficult than anticipated because the photographic book is going through a healthy revival. The choice of books was mind-blowing. The two books we eventually selected couldn’t have been more different. We hope you find […]

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Going freelance

I haven’t been freelancing for that long, just over a decade. But when I reflect on the fact that my first UK sales were a bunch of 35mm slides sent to my client by Royal Mail I do feel I may as well come from a different era – not unlike the bowler-clad gentlemen in […]

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