Fotosynthesis Event 23rd May 2013
Community Matters: Photography Collectives of the 1970s, and Today Fotosynthesis has an interesting event on Community Matters: Photography Collectives of the 1970s, and Today
Micheal Wayne Plant Workshop at Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London, April 2013
De-Mystifying Photography with Sony Advocate Photographer Micheal Wayne Plant This session is designed for those who are interested in photography and want to improve the quality of the photo’s that they take but are pretty much beginners. Topics covered in the session will inlcude DSLR v SLT? How to create your own style of photography An [...]
Data stripping on Social Media Networks with your digital images
David Riecks, leader of the Photo Metadata Project has a post over on The Library of Congress website about the subject of Social Media Networks Stripping Data from Your Digital Photos This is worth reading, if you care about your images. Why should you care about this is explained in the article on what social [...]
Val Williams and Storage: discussing her archive
Click on photo to see this video on Vimeo. Val Williams discussing her archive and work as a writer and curator of photography. Well worth listening to.
Thinking through: Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary by Allan Sekula.
Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation). by Allan Sekula. The following is my initial attempt at breaking down the ideas behind Allan Sekula”s Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation). All words in bold and direct quotes from the text that I’m exploring. My reading of this is that “an [...]
Website refresh
I am working on my PhD and as a way of procrastination I have refreshed my website and am now much happier with it. I finally got a handle on the portfolio-framework plugin that I am using. I kept putting it into the themes folder then not being able to activate it. That was not [...]
“Photography and Ontology” By Blake Stimson
“Photography and Ontology” By Blake Stimson “Photography and Ontology” By Blake Stimson, Professor of Art History at University of California, Davis from Melanie Ross on Vimeo. Ontology is a branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. So research into the nature of documentary photography has to ask the following. In my research [...]
Wealth in America distribution video
Wealth in America Fair income distribution and the real problem of the appropriation of income by the super rich. This video is a good illustration of the problem. This video is a good example of what happens, when we let Neo-liberal thought work on our economic policies of our governments,
A41 Project by Colin McPherson
A41 Project by Colin McPherson Colin McPherson has a New Project that has just opened in The Public in West Bromwich The work is an exploration of inequality in Britain. The exhibition is a photographic exploration of the A41 road which passes through West Bromwich on its way from Merseyside to London. Artist Colin McPherson [...]
Look and Learn with Foto8
www.indiegogo.com/foto8 This looks like a worthwhile project to support. “Since 1998, Foto8 has provided multiple platforms for photojournalism and documentary photography. Through its online and print publications, and its gallery premise from 2005-2012, the company has been at the forefront of innovative and inspiring photographic productions. During 2012, co-founder Yasmin Keel and I delivered a [...]