Photography as a language

On the first page of part four which discusses photography as a language, we are asked before going any further if we can think about any "photographs that are not used as a means of expression or communication?" and to blog about them. I'm left wondering, is this a trick question, because as I go …

Assignment Three: Self-portraiture – Submission and Reflection

As I mentioned in the process blog for this piece found here https://luke523038.wordpress.com/2022/05/12/assignment-3-self-portraiture/, I really was not looking forward to this part. I had not really been interested in self-portraits, beyond liking Francesca Woodman's work which was explored in EYV. However, as I worked through the part my eyes began to open. It is an interesting …

Assignment Three: Self-portraiture – Process

When I first started looking through this party of the module I think my heart sank a little. Self-portraits are not something I am overly interested in, and by that I mean ones featuring myself as I am not really a fan of how I look, specifically my own weight (big gut) whilst simultaneously not …

Exercise 3.3: Childhood Memories

I wrote down some ideas for this one whilst writing a diary entry in April. The Ideas Jumping on some pallets outside of the flats in Soest, Germany that were full of roofing tiles to repair the rooftops. My friend and I were climbing on them and jumping from pallet to pallet and I ended …

Exercise 3.4: Shafran Critique

Whilst researching this task, I think I have spent more time questioning the placement of the first question. At first I thought it was at odds with the work of Nigel Shafran’s, whose personal work that we are asked to look at features neither himself or his partner which as I looked into his work …

Exercise 3.2: Self-Representation

Nikki S. Lee Master accessible, publication quality reproduction of an artwork in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Fine Art Collection. Oddly I have not been able to locate a central website of Nikki S. Lee’s in order to view all of her work. I even tried under her Korean name Nikki Seung-hee Lee which was frustrating. …

Exercise 3.1: Brotherus Research and Analysis

Initially, when looking at Model Studies which I started with, I admit I was initially feeling not much at all. I didn't get it. I did of course notice though how they were technically excellent, and that there was a visible use of a shutter release, which is not hidden from the viewer. Mirrors and …

Francesca Woodman

“It is difficult not to read Woodman’s many self-portraits – she produced over five hundred during her short lifetime – as alluding to a troubled state of mind. She committed suicide at the age of twenty-two.” Bright, S.A​utofocus: Theself-portraitincontemporaryphotography​ (2010) The research task asks the following: Look up the work of photographer Francesca Woodman online. …

Assignment 2 Feedback: Photographing the Unseen

The Feedback Really ambitious and thoughtful work, Luke, and quite the stylistic contrast with what you produced for A1. You’re reaching for something quite difficult here, something that communicates a fairly abstract set of ideas, and it’s fantastic too see you have the confidence to take on such a task. There are some likeable images …

Assignment 2: Narrative -Photographing the Unseen – Submission and Reflection

The brochure can be found here on Issuu called 'The Sound of Isolation' https://issuu.com/lukeshephard The aim of this piece is to highlight the difficulties and isolation that deaf people still encounter in this day and age, whilst also highlighting my own prior ignorance of them and their culture, seeing it as nothing more than a …