Street Photography

In a workshop, we were set the task of practicing street photography and so the following photographs are some attempts of capturing my surroundings when walking around Brighton. I appreciate the spontaneity of street photography, as well as its seemingly imperfect results. In figure 3, the spontaneous nature of street photography is encapsulated due to…

Study in Shutter Speed

During this week’s photography practical, I utilised two contrasting methods in capturing motion on camera. Firstly, I used a slow shutter speed to capture the physical movement of a subject walking and moving their head. Though the subject is not perfectly in focus, this technique is good for emphasising speed because the progress of the…

Portrait Practice

To expand on the task set in class, I practiced taking more portraits of other people, this time in a setting outside to challenge myself to play with light settings. I mainly changed the aperture and the white balance to counteract the vibrantly bright natural light I was experiencing on this day. I settled on…

Research: Cristina Nuñez ~ Self-Portraiture

I believe Cristina Nuñez is the most influential photographer on my personal project. This is not due to the visual aesthetics of Nuñez’s work, but rather the reasoning behind her interest in self-portraiture. For Nuñez, her work is much more focused on selfhood and she seems to use art to help her cope with the…

Reading – José van Dijck: Culture of Connectivity

“The notion that sharing photos leads to collective perspectives, experiences and memory” (Van Dijck, 2010, p1) Digital photography shared online can utilise a vast array of photographs from many different people to form one vision or idea concerning the subject photographed With such large digital photographic archives, it is easier to look for patterns in…

Reading – John Berger: Ways of Seeing

“It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world” (Berger, 1972, p3) We can use photography to determine our understanding of our cultural and societal contexts Photography can help us to understand and become more aware of what’s going on beyond our own cultural contexts Photography gives us a wider world view and…