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Guest lecture- Ollie Harrop

Ollie Harrop is a freelance photographer. He is currently shooting a long-term documentary in East London, and has recently been published in Creative Review, the British Journal of Photography, The Big Issue, BBC Arts, The Guardian and Phaidon Agenda. His work relates to mine because he captures different themes of works such as documentary, commercial etc. He focuses on different themes and explores a wide range of works. This guest lecture has influenced me because he explore the theme of documentary and the story between each country, people or a happening of an event. 

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Guest lecture - Esther Teichmann

Esther Teichmann is german american artist. She focuses on fragmented bodies hues of blues and purples which are liquids, she uses black inks and pale blue to create distorted images. Esther Teichmann explores sweaty jungles which are staged images of undergrowth painted dripping inks,. she easiness ideas of loss and the impossible return. it connotes sickness and the grief of a sense of a inherited home of silence. In my opinion her work has influenced me because she explores the empty emotion and I am trying to capture the emotion and response in my images but this is done by reflections. 

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Work Placement

It has been a lovely 5 days working with the company disabilitycoach and Louis the coach. He has taught me an awful lot within working in a team and learning skills such as being confident communicating with the children, helping them out, being the ability to understand that they can do sports due to there disability which doesn't stop them. Therefore was a pleasure working with this company and a lovely coach who was very helpful and generous. 

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30th March 2015 Work Experience Shoot 

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26 March 2015 Work Experience Shoot 

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Work Placement 30th March 2015

Today I had to take pictures of the disabled children playing football outdoors. it was another day doing the same routine, we were given a task to take it in a particular way, such as close ups or wide angeles shots but creating some sort of movement and action. Louis the leader of the disability coach company told us the children are really active and for us to work as a team within the other two members of the group which were photographers as well. This was a lovely day because the sun was out and we really did have amazing images according to what Louis wanted.

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Lecturer Zoe Whishaw: Tues 17 Feb 2015

Zoe Whishaw is a coach that coaches young photographers to be successful in work and to gain confidence in what we do as people for a living. As the mentor she provides support and strategies to figure out the body of work of what one wants to achieve. These are the main points that are given to people:

Identifying a consistent and cohesive personal visual style.

Portfolio/website review and development.

Creative direction: refining a vision, exploring new directions.

Defining a target audience.

Brainstorming ideas for personal project development.

Editing/sequencing bodies of work.

Stock Photography: how to make money from photography. What sells, what to shoot and how the business works.

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Lecturer Jo Longhurst: Tues 3rd Jan 2015

 Jo Longhurst is recognised for cultural notions of perfection and traditions of photographic practise through photography, video, performance and installation.  

In this lecture he spoke about his project: Twelve dogs, twelve bitches.

An installation of 24 portraits of eminent English Whippets standing in classic show pose. The pedigree name of each dog is listed. The dogs are presented as desirable objects, arranged in grids that invite the viewer to make comparisons. Upon closer inspection, some dogs can be seen to have a string around their neck which controls their stance.

I invited the dogs who had been photographed to the opening of the Treason exhibition in 2003. They were greeted by my dog, Terence, sporting a Whippet-cam, which broadcast the dogs' private view live to a monitor in a dog crate at the gallery entrance.

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Monday 23rd March 2015 Work Experience-Disability Sports

Finding this work experience was through my friend who told me that the disability sports coach was requiting people and needed more clients to join the team of taking images for the different sport events. Therefore I went forward had a meeting with Louis and was pleasant for me to join the team. This work experience requires taking images of disabled people who play sports and shows the opportunity that the disabled is able to do anything. The work experience is based taking images of different sports in different areas of events. My first was taking images at a park of the disabled adults playing football. I was astonished of how this was achieved by them, they were lovely to work with and had so much energy and happiness. The pictures required to be active shots such as kicking the ball, running around, scoring etc. Therefore my shots were of them doing football tricks and some contained close up shots of the moment caught in action. I really enjoyed this day, was a pleasure to work.

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Week 2: Wednesday 4th February Workshop and talk by Katrina

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Professional Practise 

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Professional Practise

1st week back from christmas holidays, we received the module guide, was given a talk by Franklyn Rodgers and what his work is based about. We also had a talk done my Katrina who work with The Photographers Gallery who she mentioned the work of James Bridle.

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Work placement editing

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Work placement- Saturday 9th August 2014, 1-2pm

I finished up the excel spread sheet on the computer.

Resized all the top images and put them in the folder with the rest of each photobooks images, and transferred the folders onto Ebru USB so that we will have all photobooks from year 2012 and 2013 in one location and ready to present to Jennifer for our final meeting on Wednesday 13th August 2014 around 12pm. 

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Work Experience

Thursday 7th august

12:30pm-5:00pm

In studio working on photo shop resizing last couple of images.

After this i took images of students work for the top images Jennifer wanted. Such as going to different locations and experimenting for the top image for tumblr. Shooting outside had such a different effect to the photo books it revealed an aura to the books, the books had space to fulfil beauty within the space around them. I was pleased within these shots because it captured something unusual and it was different to see them outside out of the comfort zone. What a photo book means to me is a living human, it is what you create in your mind to have the physical raw material in your hand, it is how the visual aesthetics are put into reality. It is a form of social communication. 

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Work Experience

Wednesday 6th august

12:00-2:00pm

Still resizing more images and cropping for the tumblr site, final shots

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Work Experience

Tuesday 5th august

12:30-5:00pm resizing and cropping the images on photo shop, the last reshooting images

7pm-11pm

Resizing images again at home and straightening.