I just sent out a newsletter. Terrifying experience. Almost as scary as feeding the ducks with my kids. It is terrifying because it really matters to me. (Not the ducks, then I just fear for my life.) In this video…
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Blog of the week: Lucy Bridges
by Gareth • • 0 Comments
It has been a few weeks since we have had a ‘blog of the week’. We have been busy preparing for assessment and planning for the next academic year which starts in September. Students who are blogging their learning logs…
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Presentation – Anne Giddings
by Mark Lomas • • 15 Comments
OCA tutor and assessor Keith Roberts looks at the work of photography student Anne Giddings. Keith particularly focuses on the presentation of the work for assessment.
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Farewell to Jose…
by Gareth • • 23 Comments
Jose Navarro was an innovative and committed Curriculum Leader for Photography. He was the main motivating force behind developing the programme of study visits which started in photography and expanded out to other subject areas. He was the author of…
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Genesis Study Visit
by Gareth • • 14 Comments
Sebastião Salgado’s work has many admirers but is not without its detractors. His eight year project Genesis is currently on display at the Natural History Museum and to enable students to make their own mind up we have organised a…
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Sean O’Hagan on writing about Photography
by Jesse • • 7 Comments
In the process of working on the new Photography Level 3 professional practice module, I contacted the Guardian and Observer’s correspondent on photography, Sean O’Hagan, to ask him about how came to make a living out of writing about photography…
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Siegfried Ip
by Mark Lomas • • 23 Comments
Here’s photography tutor and assessor Les Monaghan talking about Siegfrield’s innovative approach
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What makes a great portrait?
by Sharon • • 27 Comments
I had been asking myself this question when this image arrived in my inbox like a lightning bolt out of the blue.
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The Motorway Service Station…
by Gareth • • 6 Comments
Photography tutor, Andrew Conroy, has created the piece above entitled ‘The Drive’ in which poet Simon Armitage reads his own poem ‘Gymnasium’ with music by Ian Baxter. The poem is from a collection called ‘The Motorway Service Station as Destination…
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Peter Mansell
by Mark Lomas • • 35 Comments
Jesse Alexander and Sharon Boothroyd talk about Peter Mansell’s work for Photography 2:Landscape. In the video they refer to the work of John Davies. The video is best watched full screen to fully appreciate Peter’s work.
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Move to stills
by Elizabeth • • 9 Comments
‘Then there were the movies. From the great films I learned To look and to see.’ (Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1952) David Puttnam, the British film producer and educator, has observed that more people see a movie still than will see the…
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Back Garden Blossfeldts
by Gareth • • 28 Comments
Unfortunately you have already missed the opportunity to attend the OCA study visit to the Whitechapel Gallery retrospective of work by Karl Blossfeldt, but you can still do the post-visit ‘homework’. Tutors Robert Enoch and Rob Bloomfield challenged students to…