Exercise 5.3: Looking at photography

01.10.21 For this exercise we are asked to revisit the photograph ‘Behind the Gare St. Lazare’ by Henri Cartier Bresson … More

Project 3: Studio Lighting – ‘Ex nihilo’

26th July 2021 Introduction Below extracts are from the OCA EYV course work folder page 88: You don’t discover light … More

19th July 2021 Rut Blees Luxemburg (b.1967) carries her large-format camera around night-time London, making only three or four exposures … More

Daylight changes from moment to moment; the advantage of artificial light is that it stays the same. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle … More

08th July 2021 George Wilson documented the life within a British arcade where he worked as a bingo caller. Because … More

15th April 2021 Introduction While some photographers try to resolve the problem of capturing movement within a still image by … More

16th June 2021 Quite incredible, isn’t it, that one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century was down … More

26th March 2021 These three men were the pioneers in what has come to be recognised as a defining characteristic … More

2nd March 2021 Depth of field was also a political decision for British landscape photographer Fay Godwin, whose photobook Our … More

10th March 2021 Another of the aesthetic codes of shallow depth of field is intimacy. In her Evidence series Mona … More