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Here at OCA the events team is gearing up for the Focus on Imaging show. Europe’s biggest annual imaging show is on at the NEC from 6th -9th March Focus on Imaging is a great opportunity to get ‘hands-on’ the latest gear and learn new techniques. Leading photo retailers are there so don’t forget to […]
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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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Francis Ford Coppola recently made an interesting statement in an interview about whether artists (in the broadest sense of the word) should be paid for their work. Here’s the relevant paragraph: ‘You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. […]
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Two new opportunities for OCA students to join photography Course Leaders on study visits. On 9 February Alan Whetton will be leading an afternoon visit in in Bradford. The afternoon will include visits to two exhibitions at the National Media Museum, Land Revisited by Fay Godwin and Back Home by Swedish photographers Anders Petersen and […]
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Like many collage artists before him, John Stezaker is fascinated by what happens with you bring together found images to create unexpected meanings.
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Not so much a blog of the week (or even a thought for the day) but a moment to address one of the most frequently asked questions raised by new students to the OCA: ‘What do you mean reflective? It says I should be reflective in my learning log, how do I know if am […]
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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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Last year Duckrabbit did some training for OCA staff on producing photo slideshows and since that time I have been an avid reader of their blog. I missed this slideshow when it appeared on the Guardian website, but find it beautiful and searingly moving. The final thirty seconds are both joyful and technically superb, presumably […]
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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’
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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 […]
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