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The Making of Books. Part 2.
Posted: 21/05/19 09:43 |
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Making individual page layouts is an essential part of the book planning process. Play around with the sequencing of images. This stage can take longer than you imagine. It is good to spend time with various versions of your book before completing it.
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The Making of Books: Part 1
Posted: 14/05/19 09:36 |
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If you are new to bookmaking, then experimenting with making artist style books is a fantastic learning experience. They are a great way to understand the basic structure of books, play around with different materials and methods of production.
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‘I am tired of guilt…’
Posted: 13/05/19 09:10 |
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At ‘Don McCullin’ you’re not supposed to think so much as feel. But the other function of an art gallery, besides educating us, is surely to provide a public space for debate and criticism. And I’d like to concentrate on that part now, rather than the private response, because what is there to say about our private responses to those photographs except that they’re valid?
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Piloting a new way of interacting with tutors online.
Posted: 05/04/19 09:58 |
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In response to student and tutor feedback the Photography team have started to trial the provision of regular online groups, defined by unit and led by a tutor who has a special interest in that area. These groups are intended to compliment (not replace) the existing regular hangouts happening that are forum-wide, facilitated by tutors and those that are student led. The idea is to diversify and create other alternate, online spaces for student communities.
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Study Event: Self Evidence | Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe
Posted: 23/03/19 09:45 |
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Join OCA tutor Wendy McMurdo in Edinburgh on the 20 April.
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Study event: Don McCullin
Posted: 22/03/19 09:51 |
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Join OCA tutor Robert Bloomfield in London on the 20 April.
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Documentary evidence and artistic expression.
Posted: 18/03/19 09:24 |
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Exhibition: Empire of Memory at ‘Temporary Contemporary’ Huddersfield, January 2019. As a photojournalist I grapple with a number of problems: can a realistic medium such as photography ever really show the underlying causes of social problems? A mechanical recording instrument has a limited capacity to convey a point of view, or express an author’s emotional […]
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Study event: Format19 festival
Posted: 20/02/19 03:29 |
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Join OCA tutors Derek Trillo and Helen Warburton in Derby 15-17 March 2019. Spread over three days you could choose one or two days, but would get more from the weekend and a greater sense of community and cohesion with fellow students the more days you can attend.
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What I learned writing an LGBT film
Posted: 14/02/19 09:55 |
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LGBT History Month is all about promoting equality, diversity and education. If you are writing or making a film with an LGBT theme, there is a responsibility on the artist to be truthful when dealing with topics that – for many – are delicate, if not life changing.
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Study event: Sometimes I Disappear
Posted: 12/02/19 03:01 |
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Join OCA tutor Wendy McMurdo on 2 March in Edinburgh.
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