In a variation on the Blog of the Week theme, I am grateful to tutor Alan Byrne for drawing our attention to this assignment for the level one course The Art of Photography by Roukay Mahajar. The assignment, Elements of Design, asks students to produce a series of images of a similar subject which...
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OCA Assessors Maggy Milner and Clive White discuss the book 'Not Our Time' by Social Documentary student Penny Watson.
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Good news from the Photographers' Gallery. They have announced both a re-opening date and the first exhibitions in their enlarged premises. I am particularly excited that we will get the opportunity to see Oil by Edward Burtynsky.
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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 internation
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This week we are featuring Nigel Roberson's learning blog for his Photography 2: Landscape course. It is an exemplary example of a carefully structured reflective learning log, showing clearly how Nigel has developed his work, selecting ideas, re
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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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It is becoming increasingly hard to keep track of all the things OCA students are doing, with growing numbers blogging their learning logs, setting up informal meetings, etc, but this is something special. Student Penny Rowe has got together with
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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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Bonne Année!. Here is my 2012 New Year Quiz! (I haven't pulled any crackers this year, so you'll have to indulge me...)
Q: From the images included in this article, choose which is
a) Art
b) Vandalism
Did you guess right?!
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Saturday saw a group of students at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield. The gallery was closed to the public and Photography Curator Andrew Conroy had joined us to talk about Si Barber's body of work 'The Big Society' and how the exhibition had been hung.
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