October 2022 – Alison Berrow

Tuesday 25th October Jeremy Hastings

Posted on 30 October 2022 by Alison

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 […]

Tech Session with Catherine – Location, Lighting.

Posted on 25 October 202225 October 2022 by Alison

20th October 2022 Lights, camera ….hold it! Becky was our stylish model posing beautifully on the fabulous architectural stairway on location in the imposing Catalyst building. We were testing out our skills of being able to capture an effective and softly lit image with challenging light from the imposing windows and shadows from the spiral […]

Week 3: The Body

Posted on 19 October 202219 November 2022 by Alison

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. […]

Tech Session with Catherine – Lighting and Movement.

Posted on 18 October 202225 October 2022 by Alison

Thursday 13th October Another busy session with Catherine. Re-cap on lighting for silhouette and movement shots. Silhouette captured using lights to the side/rear of the subject seemed to work fairly well. Movement shots with a long exposure time and the whole group dancing! Catherine kindly uploaded the image results to the Facebook page.

Week 2 Gender & Identity

Posted on 7 October 202211 October 2022 by Alison

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 […]

Uni Photo Blog Week 1

Posted on 7 October 202219 October 2022 by Alison

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 […]