OCA tutor and assessor Jesse Alexander discusses the work of photography student Stuart McQuade for the course Digital Photographic Practice.
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Student Work Uncovered – Penny Watson
OCA Assessors Maggy Milner and Clive White discuss the book 'Not Our Time' by Social Documentary student Penny Watson.
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‘I take pictures I am compelled to take…’
Some videos which appear in WeAreOCA benefit from explanatory text. I don't think these two interviews which Jose and I filmed with photographer Briony Campbell need any further explanation.
To see more of The Dad Project see Briony Campbe
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JH Engström on becoming a photographer
In the first of the videos we have taken from the National Media Museum's 'In Conversation' JH Engström talks about his early career. Interestingly, he doesn't start with the 'how' of becoming a professional photographer, but the 'why'. The 'And
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Photography competitions
Jon Levy draws the distinction between two very different types of competition in this video. The mentions of particular awards come thick and fast so here are some links:
World Press Photo
Inge Morath Award
Amnesty Media Awards
One W
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Jon Levy on Intent, Art and the Vernacular
Back in December I went with Jose Navarro to film an interview with Jon Levy founder and director of Foto8. Foto8 publish the highly recommended biannual magazine of documentary photography 8 and its associated website and run the Host Gallery in
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Jose talks about Rob Brisco’s learning log
Rob Brisco whose street scene is featured above, has just completed People and Place. In our latest tutor interview, Jose Navarro talks about learning logs. The key message is, think of it as a tool. It should work for you. If it works for you -
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The same but different
OCA tutor and assessor David Winning talks about student Anne Flowers work for her printmaking course. David touches on developing ideas using sketchbooks, the essence of printmaking and illustrates points using examples of Anne's Chine-collé
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“…although the fish is dead, it looks alive.”
Continuing our series of tutors and assessors talking about student work. Here Jim Unsworth talks about Margaret Maclean's work for the Drawing 1 Course
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Washing Basket
In this slide show OCA tutor and assessor Linda Khatir talks about a painting by Anne Linehan, which she produced as part of her work on her level one painting course. we think the audio on the slide show is worth listening to twice. The first ti
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