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Decoding images is an important aspect of being a photographer and understanding photography. It has been written about extensively because the meanings behind images are of vital importance for the context they are used if they are to be successful communicators. Advertising, news pictures, fashion, the family album; they all depend on the connotations they […]
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This week we are featuring Nigel Roberson‘s learning blog for his Photography 2: Landscape course. It is an exemplary example of a carefully structured reflective learning log, showing clearly how Nigel has developed his work, selecting ideas, rejecting others and drawing on his research reading. Fabulous.
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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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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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Just in case you are wondering, this is not a post about digital editing. The colours of the sky and the water in the above photograph may have been ever so slightly corrected, but this is most definitely not a post about digital manipulations. The opening image is a photograph I took somewhere in the […]
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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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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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I’m sure you will have correctly identified the above embedded media as a video; the control strip at the bottom of the frame provides an inequivocal clue. But I bet you will also have double checked that you clicked on ‘play’ because, when you do it, apparently nothing happens. Keep watching though, and pay attention, […]
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Yes, the analogy is not inappropriate. By the end of a long weekend of exhibition visits at Brighton Photo Biennial, OCA’s Director Gareth, photography tutor Clive, a selected group of students and myself felt very much intoxicated with photography. Such was the variety and sheer number of exhibitions in Brighton this year. The Brighton Photo […]
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We now have the full details of free events and exhibition visits, we have lined up for the Brighton Photo Biennial on the weekend of 6 and 7 November. On Saturday 6 November, meet Photography Course Leader Jose Navarro and myself at the De La Warr Pavillion in Bexhill to visit the Myth, Manners and […]
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