Working with one (willing!) subject in a simple ‘studio’ set-up, give yourself five minutes ‘in-control’, take your portraits from any angle, lit in any way, without interference. After five minutes,Continue readingEx 2.6: in-control and reverse-control
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
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