Hospital. 2022 © W6 Topic : Where are you now / Where are you going next? REFLECTION "An artwork is different from an ordinary object because it is about something. Because it is about something it requires interpretation to function." (Danto, 1964 inyoung,2017) "When it matters, people are prepared to concentrate harder on receiving it. And when it doesn't matter, photography always stays trivial." (Hodgson in Fotoboekenmarathon,2012). How do you look at photographs? I t

Freeway. 2022 © W5 Topic : Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely REFLECTION "Means putting oneself onto a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge, and therefore, like power" (Sontag, 1977:4) Select a single image from your own practice and outline your ethical approach. I try not to steal images and generally ask permission and respect peoples privacy if they refuse. Sometime you can't afford to ask everyone in a wedding or a PR event their pe

Freeway. 2022 © W4 Topic : Interrogating Photographs REFLECTION "There is one lesson we can learn from photographs. Images exist not to be believed but to be interrogated." (Grunberg. 1999 :273) Do photographs exist in their own right or as something to be interrogated, worked out, like a crime scene, to work out what had happened here. Much of commercial photography is about just existing, it needs no interrogating, it is a car etc. Consider the intent of your own practic

Freeway. 2022 © W3 Topic : Photography / Photograph (ies) "Photography is a system of visual editing.... it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite". (Szarkowski, 1976) Consider the intent of your own practice. How do you articulate this? What strategies do you use to communicate your intended meaning? How do you want your viewer to respond? I'm still reflecting on Alison R

One of my food shots, Capsicun, WIP images . 2022 © W2 Topic 2 : Authentication / Representation "In the Photograph, the power of authentication exceeds the power of representation." Roland Barthes (1980:89) Consider what you think Roland Barthes (1980:89) means by this, Do I agree? One of the problems I have with Roland Barthes apart from being unfriendly to read is that he is not a photographer. Many of the art critics are not photographers, Sontag is another one. People