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From the series If you get married again, will you still love me? by Sharon Boothroyd. Eight of us met for a coffee and a chat, partly to help me learn more about OCA (as a new tutor) and to question each other on our passion for photography. I think meeting together to do real […]
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Two years ago, one of our External Examiners said ‘why don’t you do study visits, it would be a great way to network students’. We thought it was an idea worth trying and after two tentative visits in London and Birmingham, we launched into a full weekend at the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial. We thought […]
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The Saatchi Gallery is a large exhibition space and the Out of Focus survey of contemporary photography is a large exhibition, possibly too large to absorb in one go. But that is what twenty six of us set out to do on Saturday. It would be pointless to try to summarise the day, so here […]
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The OCA will be making a study visit at Ffotogallery in Penarth on Saturday 18th August to look at the work of acclaimed British documentary photographer, Daniel Meadows. In the early 1970s Daniel Meadows embarked on a journey to create a social snapshot of Britain, breaking with photography tradition and infusing the medium with new […]
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If you get married again, will you still love me? is a poignant series of images created by OCA tutor Sharon Boothroyd based on remembered words spoken to separated fathers. On her website Sharon says: The highly fabricated images incorporate elements of fantasy in their precise construction, settings and use of actors. By exaggerating conventional […]
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Despite some of the worst June rain seen, we had a good day at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. OCA student Trauti Hard reports: ‘Gathering in the entrance to the main building of YSP, we decided what to do considering the mist and torrential rain outside. Any wandering around in the park and looking at work in the […]
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Not only was last Friday’s trip to Ffotogallery in Cardiff the OCA’s first photography study visit in Wales, but it was also a different take on our regular outings, by combining a visit to an exhibition with a group tutorial. Voices of the South Atlantic, which is a partnership between Ffotogallery, Photofusion and Autograph ABP, […]
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The title of Tanya Ahmed’s exhibition (I call this place home) at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield echoes from the earlier series by Bruce Davidson that inspired her work. The introduction to Davidson’s book starts with the line “What you call a ghetto, I call my home” and whilst the Magnum photographer was quoting one […]
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You have already heard Maggy Milner talking about Tanya Ahmed’s work. At the start of her exhibition in Sheffield Mark and Elizabeth got Tanya to talk about her work.The exhibition closes this Saturday, but there are still two places available on the study visit this Friday. Personally, it was a pleasure to meet Tanya and […]
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An OCA student, Judy Nolan, who is studying textiles and is based in Australia has taken the initiative and approached one of our tutors to ask her for copies of the briefing notes she used on a recent study visit (in England) so that she could run one in Australia. Here is her report on […]
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