Friday, October 22 · 7:00pm – 11:30pm Clifton Street, Brighton -near the train station Come along to a fun-filled evening at my indoor autumn fete! Proceeds going towards my Peacehaven exhibitions. Highlights include: Tombola Photograph auction Lucky dip Guess the weight of… Clothes Swap Boutique* (more details below) and much much more! Drink available at…
On Friday 29 October 2010 at 6pm the Mayor of Peacehaven will officially open my exhibition at The Dewdrop Inn in Peacehaven. This will be an occasion for all of the bodies of work which make up Peacehaven in III Parts to come together and unite, most importantly with an audience. It is the audience’s presence…
Low rise, high skies Cookie cut-out streets Few trees, strong breeze Whistles its lonesome beat Cliff top roads front the coast Edged against the sea Bungalows stand in orderly rows Waiting behind waist high walls Square lawn, birds at dawn Precisely perched on wires Polished cars, perfect paths Sky bright, window tight Wall against the…
“Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self-determined. We need home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for our vulnerability.” Alain De Botton, The Architecture of Happiness, 2006
I have been reading ‘The Medium is the Massage’ (Quentin Fiore). It is interesting to read this insightful work in relation to my Rethink project. This book questions, analyses and probes our relationship with the methods of communication we have used throughout history, making connections between these mediums and how they help to shape society…
So far on LCC’s MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography… I think my practice has strengthened. My understanding of the elements which make up ‘story telling’ has vastly improved. I now realise that up until the first assignments earlier this year I was only applying my own set of criteria to what I was shooting….
This week our mapjd09 group has decided on its theme for the group project. Rethink. After countless posts and comments discussing what our theme might be Rethink entered as a late comer and I for one am very pleased that it did. Up until this point in the process I felt unusually quiet about offering…
Evaluating my Morocco Photo Essay An underlying focus in my work is to attempt to give those without a voice a chance to speak and be heard. I am committed to collaborating at some level with my subjects whilst simultaneously building and maintaining a respectuful relationship with them.This project was all about exploring issues surrounding…
Morocco Photo Essay Looking at the above image by Peress and looking through many of images as I have been over the past few weeks, I cannot say how, but he seems to have influenced some of my concepts about framing & composition I have adopted in my most recent Morocco Photo Essay. I am…
Insh’Allah, Moroccan Stories (Insh’Allah means God willing. It is said by all Moroccans repeatedly in conversations. Particularly used when making arrangements to so something in the future. It is a gesture towards the power of Allah overseeing individuals’ daily lives.) Subject and methodology/approach I went to Morocco having tentatively set up some shoots with a…