Essentialism and the landscape
Photography, as a subject and an object of study, needs a new and contemporary language which will articulate what it is now becoming. The problem of how to [...]
Entrelacé: how technology, movement and visuals are interlaced in the film design for the Royal Ballet’s ‘Woolf Works’
In the previous century it was film and moving images that would often provide a context for thinking about questions relating to the human condition. Not by directly [...]
Surplus-value: surplus image
The image surplus of the 21st-century directly maps a crisis of critical new ideas, as well a social shift away from confronting economic, environmental and political consequences. Today, [...]
The incompleteness of looking
For users of the mobile image-messaging app Snapchat, expressiveness is largely mediated through in-built filters, described as lenses, and the extensive use of short pieces of text and [...]
Everyone is a photographer: lecture notes
What follows are some extended notes from a lecture I gave entitled: "Everyone is a Photographer." It attempts to ask questions about what we should be thinking about [...]
Why study for a photography degree?
Why study for a photography degree? It could be convincingly argued that the technical skills required to make photographs are becoming easier to learn and master. For many people, [...]
Snapchat: a brief encounter
For users of the mobile image-messaging app Snapchat, expressiveness is largely mediated through in-built filters, described as lenses, and the extensive use of short pieces of text and [...]
Periphery vision: data as image
In this paper I begin by suggesting digital photographic images should be considered as being neither a purely visual experience nor a purely perceptual one. Instead, I argue [...]
Annotating the world
Augmented reality is generally understood to be a direct or indirect view of the world supplemented by additional information, data or graphics. It provides an enhancement to our [...]
Virtually invisible: photography and the image in the demotic space
Demotic - relating to a simplified form of hieroglyphics used in ancient Egypt by the ordinary literate class outside the priesthood. To speak of the virtual may be [...]