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JH Engström on becoming a photographer

Posted: 14/04/11 08:42 | 20 Comments

In the first of the videos we have taken from the National Media Museum’s ‘In Conversation’ JH Engström talks about his early career. Interestingly, he doesn’t start with the ‘how’ of becoming a professional photographer, but the ‘why’. The ‘Anders’ referred to in the clip is, of course, his mentor and collaborator Anders Peterson.

Photography competitions

Posted: 18/01/11 07:07 | 9 Comments

Jon Levy draws the distinction between two very different types of competition in this video. The mentions of particular awards come thick and fast so here are some links: World Press Photo Inge Morath Award Amnesty Media Awards One World Media Awards And Jon’s own summershow and the ‘people’s choice award’

Jon Levy on Intent, Art and the Vernacular

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Posted: 12/01/11 03:58 | 5 Comments

Back in December I went with Jose Navarro to film an interview with Jon Levy founder and director of Foto8. Foto8 publish the highly recommended biannual magazine of documentary photography 8 and its associated website and run the Host Gallery in London. Jon was very generous with his time and we are working hard to […]

Jose talks about Rob Brisco's learning log

tutorstalk

Posted: 13/12/10 04:47 | 31 Comments

Rob Brisco whose street scene is featured above, has just completed People and Place. In our latest tutor interview, Jose Navarro talks about learning logs. The key message is, think of it as a tool. It should work for you. If it works for you – it will work when it comes to assessment. And […]

The same but different

Posted: 08/12/10 10:06 | 8 Comments

OCA tutor and assessor David Winning talks about student Anne Flowers work for her printmaking course. David touches on developing ideas using sketchbooks, the essence of printmaking and illustrates points using examples of Anne’s Chine-collé pieces

"…although the fish is dead, it looks alive."

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Posted: 02/12/10 01:52 | 11 Comments

Continuing our series of tutors and assessors talking about student work. Here Jim Unsworth talks about Margaret Maclean’s work for the Drawing 1 Course

Washing Basket

tutorstalk

Posted: 24/11/10 03:59 | 8 Comments

In this slide show OCA tutor and assessor Linda Khatir talks about a painting by Anne Linehan, which she produced as part of her work on her level one painting course. we think the audio on the slide show is worth listening to twice. The first time while looking at the close up detail in […]

The publishers' perspective

Posted: 13/10/10 09:48 | 1 Comments

Continuing the OCA’s exploration of what it takes to get published, Livi Michael author of the OCA’s Writing for Children course talks to publisher Penny Morris on what gets read and what is being looked for. These videos should be watched in combination with earlier videos on the agent’s perspective

Frightened of going to bed?

Bears on the Stairs Illustration Lynne Chapman

Posted: 16/09/10 09:56 | 5 Comments

We were really pleased with the response to last week’s video by Lynne Chapman on keeping a sketchbook. Paul is pretty busy right now, so we have suspended work on OCA Elements. I have uploaded here a pair of lengthier videos by Lynne on the process of illustrating a book so you can see them […]

What publishers are looking for

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Posted: 30/07/10 08:49 | 2 Comments

As promised for all those budding authors at OCA we have part two of the interview with literary agent Philippa Milnes-Smith. In this installment Philippa talks about how to make your work standout from the 50 plus manuscripts her agency receives every week and what to expect from an agent should your work be strong […]