Exercise 1.2 Background as context – My portraits

Even though I know I have to get ready for the assignment  by practicing asking strangers to take portraits , I decide to stick with people I know for this exercise. I became clear that I could probably do this at work as both the people I knew and they will be in a setting...

Exercise 1.3 Portraiture typology – My response

Over the last year of doing this course the main source of my inspiration has been my weekly stroll around the city I live here in China. The time spent with my camera has enabled me to practice and refine my skills and consider what to include in the frame and what not to. To...

Exercise 1.2 Background as context – August sander

August Sander (1876-1964) redefined  the art of portraiture, for more than 40 years of his life  he dedicated his time to categorizing his fellow country men into seven categories ,  his work was  important as both a sociological document and seen as photographic masterpiece (but not until much later). I can see how his work...

Exercise 1.4 Archival intervention

After thinking about this exercise its became quickly apparent that it was going to be very difficult for me as all my family archives are in the UK and I am not. I didn't want to trouble my parents too much and with me making a trip back to the uk in a few months...

Exercise 1.1 Historic portrait – EO Hoppe 500 words max

My choose artist for research was EO Hoppe (1878–1972) who is regarded as one of the most important and influential portrait and documentary photographers of the twentieth century. German born but had British citizenship took photos mainly from around 1910 to 1940 and in this time he was most famous in Britain for his work...