backyard blossfeldt
After the visit to Whitechapel Gallery on Saturday, Rob and Robert challenged us to try and create our own Blossfeldts…
Read More »two’s company, three’s a crowd…
That’s sort of how I felt after this final exhibition! I’d no intention of taking in another…
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After the Cartier-Bresson, it was a short hop, skip and jump into the magical world of Tim Walker: Story Teller
Read More »a question of colour…
On Saturday, a motley crew of OCA students—loosely described as the OCA Thames Valley group met up at Somerset House.
Read More »assignment 2 revisited…!
Not really—but visited Somerset House yesterday [Jan 05, 2013]—to see “Cartier-Bresson—A Question of Colour”.
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Last Friday, OCA ventured into London again—to the National Gallery to view their first ‘major’ photography exhibition.
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On 20 October, a rather large group of OCA photography students visited the 2012 Prix Pictet exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
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Gillian Wearing
The first OCA organised exhibition I’ve been able to attend this year—it was good to see familiar faces again!
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london art fair Jan 2012
There are times I regret making decisions to be elsewhere, like next weekend when the London Art Fair is on…
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pieter hugo
Unsympathetic treatment of the subject? I felt this when looking at Pieter Hugo’s images of Messina/Mussina — not only at the exhibition, but the ones that I have looked at since.
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mikhael subotzky
Impressed by his work ‘Security‘ which focuses on crime, violence and surveillance; the guards who are employed by middle and upper-classes in wealthy districts of Johannesburg; and their ‘wendy houses’.
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kudzanai chiurai
He’s not a photographer — he didn’t even take the photographs — apparently he got someone else to do that.
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roelof petrus van wyk
What makes a good photograph? Like I am ever going to answer this! But what I mean, is what is it about a photograph or project that makes us immediately appreciate or reject it?
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jodi bieber
is there anything such as original art? This came to mind when I looked at Jodi Bieber’s project. If one gets inspiration from another source, how different does the end product have to be for it to be acknowledged as original?
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figures & fictions at the V&A
Visited the ‘Figures and Fictions — Contemporary South African Photography’ exhibition with the OCA; and came back with a fair few things running round my head — questions which I need to answer.
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