Portfolio

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Artist Statement

  My portfolio for our project brief ‘Sense of Place’ contains twelve images from Beacon Hill country park near to where I live. The project is based on capturing the trees in their unique shape and location amongst surrounding nature found in the natural...

Barthes Reading

From reading a passage of Roland Barthes “Camera Lucida” these are the main points I took from it. This book looks into how photography can be memories for people. A photograph contains a message without a code. There are two types of message...

Ellie Davies

I have mentioned Ellie Davies previously in a post before and I believe she is the primary photographer I have researched, her work being most influential and key to the type of images I would like to create. She has another project I’ve found through...

First pictures

These are a small selection out of a larger collection of the pictures I took for my project over the Christmas holiday. The ones shown are an insight into how I want to portray the trees, their natural shape in their own environment and how the colours are mainly...

On Being a Photographer David Hurn in Conversation with Bill Jay

From reading the chapter Selecting a subject and the conversation between David Hurn and Bill Jay, these are the main points that resonated with me and my project: The photographer must have strong curiosity in the theme and subject. This curiosity leads to further...

Carl Bigmore

Carl Bigmore’s project on “Between Two Mysteries” explores photos taken in the pacific northwest region of America. The photos focus on natural landscape spaces including mountains, trees and grey skies. The photographer aims to follow the space in...

Claudia Almandoz

Claudia Almandoz is a freelance photographer based in Mexico. Her work that inspires me for my project is focused around landscape photography and trees and nature. This project is named “Nature/Landscape” and the pictures I have chosen relate to similar...

Week 11

In today’s session we had another practise session with our cameras. I found this very useful as we will be soon going home to work on our projects alone and need to be able to use our camera with applied techniques confidently in order to portray meaning in the...

Ellie Davies

While browsing on LensCulture, I found a photographer who works in forests and woods in Southern England. I found her images useful and relevant to my own ideas on how I want to focus on landscape photography. Ellie Davies has a body of work called Between the Trees....