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One of the things that has been concerning me recently is that, while we have showcased some fantastic student work over the last year, we possibly haven’t conveyed enough about who are the students are behind the work. So it was with alacrity that Mark and I seized the opportunity to interview Esther Rose, who […]
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Certain terms are almost guaranteed to cause a reaction in the OCA student forums and in that list ‘Post-Modernism’ is pretty near the top. So the fact that an exhibition this autumn at the V&A asks ‘What does Postmodernism mean, and where did it come from?’ makes it an ideal topic for a study visit. […]
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Ever since I read One River by Wade Davis, many years ago, the figure of Richard Evans Schultes has held great fascination for me. Ethnobotanist, adventurer, activist and supporter of indigenous causes, Schultes led a life that those of us with a taste for travel and remote places can only be jealous of. He also […]
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It has been a few weeks since we have had a blog of the week, so I was grateful when photography tutor Derek Trillo drew my attention to Jonny Sutton‘s log for Art of Photography. Careful and considered, Jonny’s blog shows how he is combining course exercises with research and other practical work. Both Derek […]
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Jim Smith is a student on People and Place, here is an extract from his learning log on exhibitions: ‘Looking in books or online at the work of other photographers, by ourselves and without discussion with others is learning that is initiated in the visual mode rather than audio or kinaesthetic. To make an impact […]
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OCA photography student Simon Taylor has an exhibition of his work at the Bath cafe Boston Tea Party starting this Saturday 9 July. Simon says ‘New York can give you visual indigestion, there is the conveyor belt of people passing you by, the flickering hypnotic advertisements and the huge buildings searching like trees in the […]
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The work of OCA Photography tutor Maggy Milner often strays into installation, and you’d wonder, perhaps, whether she is perhaps foremost a conceptual artist when you see the images that make up her latest project. Indeed Maggy herself says she moves fluidly between using lens based and other media. This project sees the use of […]
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Saturday saw a group of students join Jose Navarro and Clive White for a study visit to the V&A exhibition ‘Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography’. I was personally keen to visit the exhibition having lost sight of what was happening with photography in South Africa and intrigued by the masses of content on […]
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This interview also appears on The Freeman View. Jesse Alexander has been working professionally with photography since 2004, after graduating from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham (now know as the University for the Creative Arts). As well as a photographic practice, Jesse has written for several magazines, including Source and HotShoe […]
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Eileen Adams is a fervent believer in the value of sketchbooks. We were delighted when this sketchbook guru (known for her contribution to Campaign for Drawing) agreed to be filmed talking about sketchbooks and the role of learning logs. I approached her after hearing her keynote speech at a conference all about sketchbooks earlier in […]
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