On reading the brief for this assignment, I struggled to come up with an idea for it. A few of the ideas I had were; using my local area and capturing the nice and the not so nice side of it, but I didn’t feel I could make this convincing or original enough. Another idea […]
Before reading Part One, I hadn’t really thought about the my ideas of documentary photography. Now, I can understand that not all images are ‘real’, in the way that ‘what you see is what you get’. More often than not, the photographer already knows what they want to capture when they set out to take […]
Does digital technology change how we see photography as truth? Arguments for: As an audience we know that images can be manipulated, and what we see but not always be ‘real’. Even when images have been manipulated, they are still telling the story of which they were intended, so will still get their point across. […]
When I first read this exercise, I immediately thought of using a selfie stick image of myself with a disaster happening in the background. After looking at Peter Kennard’s images, I realised this was too similar and wanted to try something different. I still wanted to use the selfie stick idea, and after discussing a few ideas […]
