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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