Posts Tagged ‘ Photography ’

Blog of the week: Nigel Roberson

January 18, 2012
By Paul
Blog of the week: Nigel Roberson

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, rejecting others and drawing on his research reading. Fabulous.
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Country Doctor

August 4, 2011
By Michael
Country Doctor

Case History of a Classic Profile Photo Essay Magazine picture stories using photographs evolved during the 1930s, first in Europe, and then in the United States. Once editors understood that sequenced photographs on a double-page spread could tel
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Beyond the student work

August 2, 2011
By Gareth

One of the things that has been concerning me recently is that, while we have showcased some fantastic student work over the last year, we possibly haven't conveyed enough about who are the students are behind the work. So it was with alacrity th
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Jesse Alexander

June 27, 2011
By Michael
Jesse Alexander

This interview also appears on The Freeman View. Jesse Alexander has been working professionally with photography since 2004, after graduating from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham (now know as the University for the Creative Ar
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Photo manipulations

February 9, 2011
By Jose
Photo manipulations

Just in case you are wondering, this is not a post about digital editing. The colours of the sky and the water in the above photograph may have been ever so slightly corrected, but this is most definitely not a post about digital manipulations.
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Focus on Imaging 2011

February 4, 2011
By Paul
Focus on Imaging 2011

Here at OCA the events team is gearing up for the Focus on Imaging show. Europe's biggest annual imaging show is on at the NEC from 6th -9th March Focus on Imaging is a great opportunity to get 'hands-on' the latest gear and learn new techniques.
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Disposable photographs

January 20, 2011
By Jose
Disposable photographs

Toilet Paper is hardly an auspicious name for a photography magazine. Reflecting on the title of this new commercial and advertising magazine and the reasons why an editor would choose to imbue their publication with such clear derogatory connota
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Is it photography, is it video?

January 11, 2011
By Jose

http://vimeo.com/13423822 I'm sure you will have correctly identified the above embedded media as a video; the control strip at the bottom of the frame provides an inequivocal clue. But I bet you will also have double checked that you clicked on '
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On an exhibition ‘crawl’ at Brighton Photo Biennial

November 9, 2010
By Jose
On an exhibition ‘crawl’ at Brighton Photo Biennial

Yes, the analogy is not inappropriate. By the end of a long weekend of exhibition visits at Brighton Photo Biennial, OCA's Director Gareth, photography tutor Clive, a selected group of students and myself felt very much intoxicated with photograp
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Bexhill and Brighton

October 25, 2010
By Gareth
Bexhill and Brighton

We now have the full details of free events and exhibition visits, we have lined up for the Brighton Photo Biennial on the weekend of 6 and 7 November. On Saturday 6 November, meet Photography Course Leader Jose Navarro and myself at the De La
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