The worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years continues to show no signs of abating. Over the last few months several bodies of photographic work focusing on the humanitarian emergency in the region have appeared in national and international media. One such body of work is a portfolio of images taken...
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It's not everyday that you ruin £260 worth of digital camera. But that's exactly what I did to my Nikon P7000 in a winter blizzard on Rhinog Fach, in North Wales, a couple of weeks ago. It was a long time since a camera had died on me, the whole
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OCA student Amano Samarpan will be familiar to many students from his frequent attendance at study visits. He has recently had published a new edition of his successful award-winning book Birds of India. For this 4th edition Amano travelled to In
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As you will probably know if you follow us on OCA-student forums, the OCA has become a partner in Alamy's new student initiative. The scheme allows OCA students at levels 2 & 3 to become contributors to Alamy's picture library and receive 100
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Opting for a study visit to the Hereford Photography Festival instead of going to see a retrospective of Martin Parr at the M-Shed in Bristol wasn't an easy decision to make, but we couldn't have possibly missed the longest-running photography fe
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WeAreOCA's recent post Introducing Miranda reminded me of a photograph that the web editor of Hotshoe magazine took earlier this year. The photograph shows the place where Miranda Gavin's grandparents were married and are now buried. Miranda's ph
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It is 6 months since a group of dedicated OCA students volunteered to take part in a publishing initiative with The Big Issue in the North (BITN). We thought it was time we shared the experience on We Are OCA and showed you the images that the ed
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Had Jacob Riis been born in the age of the Internet he may well have invented crowd funding. As a photographer committed to bring about social change, as Miles Orvell noted in his book American Photography, the late-19th-century photographer us
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I guess Muammar Gaddafi will not be having a ride in his hot air balloon again anytime soon. The end of his regime must have felt as surreal to him as it felt seeing his UK-made hot air balloon when I was out on a bike ride in Ashton Court in Bri
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Writing a review of a book which features one's work may seem a rather cheeky and unintelligent attempt at self-promotion. But Maria Short's new book Context and Narrative, recently published by AVA Books, is the kind of learning resource that m
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