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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Jose finds much to like in Karl Barron’s Art of Photography submission. You can read more about the thinking behind Karl’s lighting project on his learning blog here.
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Jim Unsworth, art tutor and assessor, gives us an insight into some preliminary sketches in black and white and colour.
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. We have featured the work of student Emil Nemecek before – back in 2011 his blog caught the eye of his Graphic Design tutor. Now Emil is tackling Digital Film Production. Assignment 2 is about creating […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I’m grateful to photography tutor Andrea Norrington for pointing out our latest Blog of the Week. Simon Lewis’ learning blog for his People and Place course stands out because of the way you can see clearly […]
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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Here is Sharon Broothroyd talking about the work of student Geoffrey Bradford.
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Reiterating the words of the assessors, I reviewed OCA student David Hazlett’s work. A short video, a beautiful sketchbook, well worth taking the time to view.
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Two OCA students have work selected for the Photofusion Annual Members’ Show (AMPS). Now in its fourth year, the South London gallery’s annual members’ show will be a salon-style exhibition this year, reflecting increased interest and enabling the gallery to show a greater range of members’ work. The exhibition starts on the 7th of December […]
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Every now and again I come across work at Level 1 that denotes skills and photographic maturity well beyond that level. John Chapman’s compelling and thought-provoking final assignment for Art of Photography, which focuses on one of the Emmaus villages, is one such body of work. “I chose the subject, Emmaus, because I was interested in what […]
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OCA is proud of its ability to reach out and offer creative study to those who for one reason or other would find it impossible to study in a traditional college/university environment. Occasionally a student comes to our attention because of their remarkable attitude to study, and then turns our heads when we realise that […]
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