Landscape as a fiction
On the outskirts of St Austell in Cornwall locals describe the conical-shaped mounds of waste, produced by china clay mining, as the Cornish Alps. This is a reformed [...]
On the outskirts of St Austell in Cornwall locals describe the conical-shaped mounds of waste, produced by china clay mining, as the Cornish Alps. This is a reformed [...]
Along with being credited as the inventor of photography, Daguerre is also known for perfecting the diorama. “The diorama - like most illusionism, and particularly like photography – [...]
Gaston Bachelard, in The Dialectics of Outside and Inside (1994: 211), explores a poetics of ‘being.’ Countenancing philosophical and linguistic determinations in relation to space, he proposes that [...]
‘Ritornello’ (the little return) is a series of square diptychs predominantly showing the industrial landscape of the china clay area. Each pair of images is created from a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]