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The Bristol Festival of Photography has gone from strength to strength over the several years since it was established. “Will it be worth dragging students from all over the country for a study visit?” we asked ourselves this year, and judging by the response from last week’s trip, the answer is hopefully a resounding “yes”. […]
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We have learnt from experience that group shows throw up some interesting opinions and debate, so we could let the latest survey of what the Guardian calls ‘the confusion of contemporary photography‘ at the Saatchi Gallery pass without a visit. Join us on Saturday 14 July as we take a look, get excited, get annoyed […]
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How about a library visit? Possibly? How about a library visit at the headquarters of Press Association Images? Bit more interested? Thanks to student Helen Rosemier we have secured a tour of the archives in Nottingham for 10 people followed by Q&A (about 2 hours total). They have about 12 million photographs dating back to 1863 including images of […]
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Well, Barbican, London actually. But this exhibition promises to contextualise the Bauhaus so effectively that you may feel imbued with a sense of the world’s first, and most famous, modern art school. OCA is offering a study visit at this significant exhibition on Thursday 28 June, so book up your place to join us there […]
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Assessor and tutor Maggy Milner talks about Tanya’s level 3 work. There are still places available for the study visit led by Maggy to the exhibition of Tanya’s work in Sheffield. This is highly recommended – definitely worth the day off work.
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In the late 1960s, Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson spent two years working on what would become one of his most famous projects, ‘East 100th Street’. Exploring the interior spaces and life on the street of the inhabitants of a block in New York’s East Harlem, his black and white images are acknowledged as a classic […]
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Sarah Gallear, OCA photography student gives her thoughts on last week’s study visit. Roger Ballen is a photographer who has generated mixed opinions throughout his career and this retrospective, the first major exhibition of his in the UK at Manchester art gallery is no exception. Shadowlands: Photographs 1983-2001 could not be a more apt title […]
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We had been keeping an eye on this festival for a while and had thought that we would give it a miss for a study visit. However, when we saw the programme we knew we simply had to squeeze it into the schedule. In order to give students the maximum notice we have decided to […]
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A thought provoking study visit to the Whitechapel yesterday. One of the objectives of the study visits is to reflect on the experience of seeing photography and video in a gallery and there was certainly plenty to reflect on here. Michael Lawton from the gallery drew our attention to the way the downstairs space had […]
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Timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas war, Voices of the South Atlantic examines issues of war and its consequences. Rooted in the 1982 Falklands/ Malvinas conflict, it includes the voices of people who fought on both sides, as well as civilians who were directly affected. Colour photographs of landscapes of the […]
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