Tuesday 25th October Jeremy Hastings

Jeremy Hastings. Artist, Photographer and Storyteller. We had a visit from Jez Hastings today who explained that he is doing his PhD at Staffordshire University.  Combining his knowledge of the geography of the land, walking along it and photographing it as he goes, Jez uses his photography to tell stories of his walks and encounters […]

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Week 3: The Body

Performed, sexualised, aged, sick, idealised, physical and political. After the lecture today with Kate I watched the programme ‘Shock of the Nude’ with Mary Beard. It didn’t shock me, I’m not sure it was supposed to.  I lost my way a little during the lecture but thankfully was able to re-read the power point presentation. […]

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Week 2 Gender & Identity

Following a lecture from Kate Newton our task is to choose, research and discuss a photographer who explores identity/gender/sexuality in their practice… Asa Johannesson is a Swedish photographer and senior lecturer in Photography with The School of Art and Media at Brighton University.  I decided on them as an attempt to talk about someone I […]

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Uni Photo Blog Week 1

The word ‘Blog’ was derived by Peter Merholz from ‘weblog’, to ‘we blog’ as a humorous comment in his own blog around 1999. So…what actually is a  Blog?  “A discussion or informational website published on the world wide web consisting of discrete, often informal conversational or diary-style text entries”. Well, who knew? Apparently, most of […]

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