Category: Course work

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh is  here – http://www.intergroupresources.com/rc/knapsack.pdf (current course link is dead). My thoughts on the essay: The essay is a very interesting perspective onContinue readingReading point 2.3: white privilege

Make a quick illustrated list of the ways that you might be in a more privileged position than those whom you have already photographed. I needed to think about theContinue readingEx 2.5: privilege

Outline the positions of Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa and Jan Hoek, and reflecting on your own practice – or how you’d like your practice to develop – draw up a manifesto forContinue readingEx 2.4 | manifesto

Look again at your national press and starting from a position touted as ‘common sensical’ look for images and texts that promote a view that could be misleading. Jeremy CorbynContinue readingEx 2.3: Ideology – its there you just need to recognise it…

This exercise requires building on research in the first exercise make a list of groups that I feel are ‘ kept from view’. This goes further than identifying those whoContinue readingEx: 2.2 | kept from view

This exercise requires an example from the national press where I feel that a photograph (with or without its accompanying caption and text) has portrayed an individual or group asContinue readingEx 2.1 | portrayal as ‘others’

Mark Sealy Interview: HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN WRONGS from The Photographers’ Gallery on Vimeo. The interview discusses the historical context of the Universal Human Rights act, post world war II andContinue readingReading point 2.1: Human Rights and Wrongs

Watching this video was recommended in the course material. It was recorded in 2012 as part of the exhibition at Fabrica (https://www.fabrica.org.uk/the-beautiful-horizon) of the work No Olho da Rua – InContinue readingLecture: Afterimage – why representation matters – Mark Sealy